On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:07 PM, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com