[oclug] what linux distro do you use?

Val M valiko at gmail.com
Tue Nov 30 16:07:40 EST 2004


Yes. Since you are using Ubuntu you know that Debian got thouthands of
packages, compared to freshrpms.net. Any Debian mirror supports
apt-get, very little amount of Redhat mirrors support apt4rpm/yum.




> > 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.



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