I have to agree completely. The installation disks were an endless
source of trouble for several hours here. However, things mostly work
right now (it was a mess of broken dependencies a month or so ago).
> The system runs in production mode since December, and from what I
> read on the axp-list, Debian/Alpha seems too works better than
> Redhat5.0 at least in a number of areas (the developement system,
> particularly g77, g++, and also NIS): redhat seems to have some
> trouble for this kind of thing, it works perfectly for us.
I don't personally use g77; however g++ is simply nonfunctional in
RH5.0 Alpha, and the portmapper is quite broken as well - this is the
latest for me in the saga of NIS bugs (glibc quirks were the previous, I
think).
> Of course it may be possible that Debian/Alpha has problem of its
> own, but for us it works perfectly and has all software packages we
> need (perhaps already much more than redhat).
Next scheduled upgrade for my UDB, debian 2.0, clean install.
Let's see. It's a pity sometimes distributions compete more than
collaborate (typical flame war stuff...).
Regards,