[vox-tech] hdparm for scsi emulated CDROM drives?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Wed 14 May 03, 12:40 PM, Michael Wenk <wenk@praxis.homedns.org> opined:
> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:00 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Wed 14 May 03, 10:37 AM, Ricardo Anguiano <anguiano@codesourcery.com> 
> opined:
> > > Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> writes:
> > > > On Wed 14 May 03,  9:44 AM, Robert G. Scofield <rscofield@afes.com> 
> opined:
> > > >> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 12:28 am, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> > > >> > S But much better in terms of quality of what I ended up with in
> > > >> > the end compared with RedHat or Mandrake, though.
> > > >>
> > > >> How?  Can you given an example?
> > > >
> > > > not releasing beta copies of gcc that don't compile the kernel.
> > >
> > > Yeah, that's a not good.  Thankfully gcc is not hard to install from
> > > source.
> >
> > heh.  no thanks.   :)
> 
> On every linux distro I have cept this last mandrake, first thing I have done 
> is grabbed the latest gcc, and recompiled it from the source. 
 
great!

> > > > apt and apt related tools
> > >
> > > Apt for redhat:
> > > http://apt.freshrpms.net/
> >
> > does it come with apt by default?
> >
> > in addition, debian allows you to run a *very* stable operating system,
> > an up to date system, or a truly bleeding edge system, depending on what
> > you want to set up.  you can even mix and match all three, so you can,
> > for instance, run a very rock solid system but have truly bleeding edge
> > copies of the mesa and sdl libraries, for instance.
> 
> Problem with debian is its the debian way or a broken system.

*cough*