Did I say something about Red Hat Linux recently?

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Did I say something about Red Hat Linux recently?

I’ve been struggling since morning to get a decent version of Python running on Red Hat 8 so that I can use Zope 2.6.2. The Python 2.2.1 that Red Hat ships segfaults with Zope.

This is a task that should be as simple as rpm -Uvh. I’ve been at it for over six hours now...

Give me my Debian any day!

tsk1979 — Dec 23, 2003 8:16:54 AM — # ↩

I agree
In dumbing down these distros, people are making it unusable for power users. Mandrake does not have kernel sources. Fedora does other sweet things and SuSe is best left alone! TarGz rulez.
- ashwinne — Dec 23, 2003 10:16:24 AM — # ↩
  
  Re: I agree
  RedHat 9 doesn't have fortune!
- hserus — Dec 23, 2003 2:54:40 PM — # ↩
  
  Re: I agree
  RH and Mandrake src.rpms are shipped on separate CDs.
  
  And RH is really a good OS to work with, thanks to a really good kernel and a good GCC, among other things (hell, look at the number of kernel committers and GCC developers they have on board).
ravi — Dec 23, 2003 2:05:11 PM — # ↩

Windows4lyfe.
tushar — Dec 23, 2003 3:49:29 PM — # ↩

Let me know if you figure it out. I'm stuck with 2.1.1 on my 7.2 box, which just doesn't cut it (no dict()?)

Btw, say hello to a new Python fan, thanks to your slides on XML-RPC. For my first project, I wrote an RSS autodiscovery tool.