08-18-2011
My take is.....
I think Mandriva is the best beginners to intermediate Distro there is. Mandriva has a closely related cousin by the name of Mageia. These both Have M.C.C Mandriva Control Center and drak or draketools I can't remember which and are RPM based. Fedora is a really good one as well in my opinion but I think a little experience on a more polished distro is needed. Suse has a interface that is bloated like Vista or something. I don't understand who would find it appealing. Ubuntu is heavy with the GUI end and is probably best for people with only have menu-type of computer experience. Debian is also worth a look. The thing with Linux distros is that the difficult ones don't have package managers etcetera. They are merely a stripped down version. You can do the same things with a fully equipped distro if you want. There is nothing stopping you.
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module::packaged
Module::Packaged(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Module::Packaged(3pm)
NAME
Module::Packaged - Report upon packages of CPAN distributions
SYNOPSIS
use Module::Packaged;
my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
# $dists is now:
# {
# cpan => '1.08',
# debian => '1.03',
# fedora => '0.22',
# freebsd => '1.07',
# gentoo => '1.05',
# openbsd => '0.22',
# suse => '0.23',
# }
# meaning that Archive-Tar is at version 1.08 on CPAN but only at
# version 1.07 on FreeBSD, version 1.05 on Gentoo, version 1.03 on
# Debian, version 0.23 on SUSE and version 0.22 on OpenBSD
DESCRIPTION
CPAN consists of distributions. However, CPAN is not an isolated system - distributions are also packaged in other places, such as for
operating systems. This module reports whether CPAN distributions are packaged for various operating systems, and which version they have.
Only CPAN, Debian, Fedora (Core 2), FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva (10.1), OpenBSD (3.6) and SUSE (9.2) are currently supported. I want to
support everything else. Patches are welcome.
The data is fetched from the net and cached for an hour.
METHODS
new()
The new() method is a constructor:
my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
check()
The check() method returns a hash reference. The keys are various distributions, the values the version number included:
my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003-5 Leon Brocard. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Leon Brocard, leon@astray.com
perl v5.12.4 2011-09-17 Module::Packaged(3pm)