[ic] OT: Redhat Alternatives?  Doug Alcorn doug at lathi.net Mon
Jan 12 10:38:17 EST 2004  I'll bite.  "Russell Mann" <tech at
khouse.org> writes:  > Which one(s) work well with
IC/mysql/pgsql?  Which ones suck?  Are > you just paying the
fees and counting it as cost of doing business?  I think that
Debian stable and Slackware are the two main distributions that
work with IC "out of the box".  The main issue is the use of a
multi-threaded perl.  you can search the archives to catch up on
the issue.  I used RedHat for a couple of years starting at or
around the 4.3 release.  I switched to Debian because of the
superior package management.  I find that I have to fuss less
installing packages on Debian.  First, it handles dependencies
very well.  Second, the default configuration of the packages
are good and usually "just work".  Packages that require
configuration by their very nature are typically pretty easy to
find where and how to configure them.  The Interchange package
that Racke has put together is an ex