Re: Which Linux distribution for Fortran 95?

From: Dr. Richard E. Hawkins (hawk_at_slytherin.ds.psu.edu)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:30:53 +0000 (UTC)

In article <c78ppf$bbd$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu>,
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu> wrote:
>Steve Lionel wrote:

>> Distributors don't pay to get supported. Compiler vendors look at the
>> distributions their customers are most likely to use and decide which distros
>> the compiler needs to be qualified on. Debian is not popular with commercial
>> customers, and its weak support for RPMs tends to keep it off the radar screen
>> here.

>I am sorry to disagree. But I think debian's .deb files together with
>apt-get is much more useful and powerful than redhat's rpm -U, or rpm
>-i. Personally I used redhat for abt 6 years and then shifted to Debian
>couple of years back and soon realized that RPM dependency is a hell.

But that's not what he said. Debian *doesn't* handle RPM's well,
whether or not .deb format is superior.

>Ofcourse it is a personal preference. But I would like to hear opinions
>from people who have used both (rpm based distros and debian)...

As with many other people, Debian was my final linux distribution.

Then, like so many others, I switched to FreeBSD :)

hawk 

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