On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 10:17 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Dan Noe wrote: > > > If that isn't acceptable to you, you should seriously consider using a > > commercial distribution where people *are* paid to fix security bugs. >
... > > Having spent the last month trying to put together a reasonably > minimalistic install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an Oracle project, let > me tell you that while they might fix bugs quickly, working with it is a > pain in the ass, particularly compared to the simplicity and flexibility > that is Gentoo. (you have to love wanting to install package A, which has a > dependency on package B you don't even care about, but can't get rid of, > and that dependency cascades into a dozen more packages you want nothing to > do with that have to install just to get package A <sigh>...) > I second this, I just finished a rather larger (highly dependency driven) RHEL oracle install and it just re-enforced to me how much gentoo is just plain awesome. There is really no other way to describe it. $gentoo++; Thanks guys! -- Wes Young Network Security Analyst University at Buffalo GPG Key ID: B0E1E99D GPG Fingerprint: 5CFE B28C E015 E03F F19D B4A8 E753 7659 B0E1 E99D ----------------------------------------------- | My Digg Profile: | http://tinyurl.com/zrc6m | | My Security Blog: | http://tinyurl.com/9av4k | | My RSS: | http://tinyurl.com/ceopv | | My Life: | http://tinyurl.com/l18g | | CPAN: | http://tinyurl.com/mujm5 | ----------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list
