--- Linda Laubenheimer <ljl@rahul.net> wrote:
> b) install debian to make my roomie happy,

Ack!

> or c)> order the Solaris 
> for Intel disks and put that on it.

Double ACK!

> > I moved from linux to bsd to get away from RPM and
> it's poor attempt at
> > handling dependencies: annoying to get bitten  by
> it here.

Give it time and keep submitting bug reports. The
package maintainers want it to work, I have first hand
experience with this. Although, it sure would be nice
to keep a set of binary packages known to work on the
ftp site...

> My roomie has been raving about debian's apt-get,
> and how good it 
> is.  If I decide to play with debian, I'll post a
> comparison.

But dontcha just feel the idealism creeping up on you
when you use it? Eek, I can't stand Debian... Then
again, I can't stand most linux installs (way too
spread out) which is why I use NetBSD. Apt-get is semi
nice, but stable is too old, testing sometimes hoses
your box, and untested almost always hoses your box
(in my experience). Pkgsrc is the best compromise in a
package manager I've yet found.

> 
> 		Linda "Solaris was my first *nix" Laubenheimer

VAX/VMS here, but I didn't know it until months after
I started playing with it...

The eternal newbie,
Andy

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