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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:45:33PM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 13:12, Simon Avery wrote: > > george wrote: > > > A large problem that I have found coming to linux is finding where things > > > are, because the directory structures follow unix which has evolved over > > > the last 40(?) years rather than been planned. Gobolinux overcomes this > > > to large extent. I can see the pro's OK but does anyone know of any > > > major con's? > > > > Duplication of libraries required. > > (Sharing libraries is part of what makes linux so efficient and reliable) > Thats potentially an advantage - one of the basic ideas behind .NET is the > avoidance of DLL hell which is repeated to some degree in Linux. I frequently > seem to break some application by loading another, or cant as the libraries > conflict. The joys of being on the cutting edge of stupidity! I don't think I've ever had this problem with Debian (except when doing something silly like using experimental packages...). The last time I attempted to use Fedora (a couple of years back) I gave up because of precisely this problem, though. I suspect it depends on the distro/package manager; I certainly don't want to waste space installing dozens of versions of the same library. -- Benjamin A'Lee <bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/
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