Linked by Adam S on Tue 6th Aug 2002 03:52 UTC
Just a few weeks after the beta release of the next version of their Linux based OS, Red Hat has released 7.3.93 of their software, once again, code-named Limbo. Those of you who read my first Limbo review know that I gave it a favorable review. After downloading and installing the second beta, I had to take a few days before writing this article.
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RPMs are not a fundamentally bad format...as far as binary packaging formats go RPM works pretty well...it's just that the actual RPM program doesn't hold your hand as much as apt-get...if you've used linux for a while, "dependency hell" as some call it is not really all that bad...RedHat's got a few warts...but all in all it's my fav Linux distro b/c it'll work with any Linux software you could ever possibly want to use, it's got that extra little bit of pollish, and it just "feels" rock-solid...and really nothing compares to FreeBSD ports...after you use that everything's inferior, and yes i've heard of gentoo