Re: desktop enviornment
By: Folsom to Access Denied on Tue Aug 13 2013 03:24 pm
Fo> I do not know the whats or hows about portage, ports, or pacman, but
Fo> coming from using centos/fedora type distros, apt-get is pretty easy to
Fo> convert to. The only thing that I missed was the `yum history` parts of
Fo> package management. Debian also has a TUI program named aptitude that lets
Fo> you navigate the package list better than anything I used in the rpm-yum
Fo> world.
They're more command line package managers. Portage and Ports are
compiling-style package managers, and pacman is probably just as easy as
apt-get.
I never really got into RPM based distros, even though CentOS is definitely one
I want to give a try someday. Then again, If I wanted something that secure I
would probably go with something like OpenBSD, just because I'd be more
comfortable with it.
Aptitude is a great GUI program, but I still can't get past NOT being able to
see what is installing via the command line. I got way too used to compiling
everything from scratch with portage and ports, and it has made me a very picky
person. I'm pulling my own arm and leg trying to force myself to use Archlinux,
since it's a binary rolling distro, so you can install an entire desktop in
about 5-10 minutes, rather than the hours it took with Gentoo or BSDs. I'm over
it. It's not as elite as the Gentoo/BSD guys say it is. lol
Regards,
Nick
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