From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Jul 18 01:41:14 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: GEM boost From: Mark Duckworth To: Maurits van de Kamp Cc: Mint List In-Reply-To: <200507180120.27783.maurits@bassment.nu> References: <1121621721.11925.28.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <1121641134.31543.2.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> <200507180120.27783.maurits@bassment.nu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:39:03 -0400 Message-Id: <1121643543.31543.5.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 01:20 +0200, Maurits van de Kamp wrote: > > I hate > > to break it to you, but MiNT is an RPM based system - and seeing as how > > it's our future, Atari is too ;-) > > We were talking about religions earlier, and in some religions "rpm" is a > dirty word. ;o) (Not in mine though). > > There was a DEB-based MiNT distro as well, but I'm not sure if it's still > being updated. I've never been able to figure out what the fuss against rpm > and in favor of deb is about though.. sure apt is nice, but that's a > frontend, not the package manager. > > Maurits. I prefer RPM though I can't put my finger on why. I feel it's more straightforward to work with. Debian mint has been pretty dead for a long time and had no proper installer really. I never got it working right. Easymint jump started mint for me and the sparemint distribution, although stagnating for many months now, is as well maintained as it gets. I plan to start doing more ports soon, but I feel it's a waste until we get VM and shared libs. Thanks, Mark