[oclug] what linux distro do you use?

Justin Wheeler oclug at datademons.com
Tue Nov 30 14:27:40 EST 2004


I haven't tried the other ones, but I do know I've used urpmi, and it 
wasn't a whole lot more useful than the original rpm system.   Didn't even 
hold a candle to apt-get.

Regards,
Justin Wheeler

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On 30/11/04 Val M said:
>
>> OS: Debian unstable/testing
>>
>>> And why do you use this paricular distribution?
>>
>> apt-get
>
> Not really compelling anymore. Fedora has up2date/yum/apt support.
> Ubuntu is based on Debian. Mandrake has urpmi.
>
> Any distro without decent packaging tools is now unacceptable to me,
> unless it comes up with a way to make packaging irrelevant.
>
> I'm currently on Ubuntu myself.
>
> Mike
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