Cool, Thanks for the tip. I have little experience with Debian as I use it for my bootable CD. That is what I love about Linux. I learn something new every day. Even the simple things excite me. On the apt-cache does it search the description of the package? Does Debian have a global update option like Gentoo? Let me know, as I am not that Debian savy. I was speaking from personal experience. I do agree that it all dpends on your intention. Personally, I love tinkering with things and would rather wait for things to build. From my experience both are really great distros, I just prefer Gentoo. It's like when people ask me about what kind of computer to buy. I always advise that if you are just a word processor and basic kind of guy buy a simple computer. If you are a speed demon, play games or just love to mess with the computer buy a more powerful one. By the way supposedly I heard that Gentoo is the #1 distro on the Novell.com site. At least thats what the website claims. I have to admit that Gentoo is a little addicting. SSA Ernie Baca Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Customs Investigations RAIC / Phoenix, Arizona ebaca@linux-forensics.com www.linux-forensics.com >From: James Mabry >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >Subject: Re: C Libraries >Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:53:30 -0700 > >Ernest Baca wrote: >>By far it is superior. It is sort of like combination of ports and >>apt-get. The one thing I personally like is the ability to search the >>packages. With apt-get you have to have the name by looking it up on the >>internet or just know it. > >Nah just 'apt-cache search ' > >Mark, >I don't have a point a point by point comparison but in my experience both >distributions package managers have the same functionality. You just have >to decide whether you want to wait around for stuff to build, but have the >software tailored to your system. Or be using your software right away but >maybe not run as quickly as it could or have more options compiled in than >you need. Of course there is a WHOLE lot more to it than that like the >differences between the philosophies of the distributions and development >processes so I'll stop now :). >-- >Slackware Linux - >Find out about the 4S rule. >www.slackware-advocacy.org/whyuse.html > >Then try it out for yourself. >www.slackware.org > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus