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First time I installed Linux, I was trying to Gaim on it.

I managed to compile Gaim before I managed to install it from RPM packages.

Using Debian was a moment of pure epiphany.

Good times.



I remember using Mandrake (later Mandriva) - it also used rpm. Dependency hell was an issue there too; it probably had to do with state of rpm more than the distro itself.




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