On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
From what i have seen of fedora and centos in the rpm world the repos
are very much better in the debian world. To me the stability comes from the distro and it's repos. Not being able to install Abiword or yumex, having to spend time selecting options for repos to me simply isn't worth it.
On the other hand, RHEL/CentOS are very mainstream. If you think you need a package that someone hasn't already made easily available, you might want to question why your needs are unique - and whether the package is worth the chance of breaking your system.
I've just installed a Slackware distro today and it's the best i've ever tried in 6 years of using linux. It's speed, ease of installation put's it in a league of its own.
"Installation" should be something you do once a decade. I predict you'll get tired of doing it repeatedly.