Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:50:44 -0400
"Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Have you tried kportage?
> 
> I have.  Again, not enough like Windows Update in the Ease of Use 
> department...

A little button running 'emerge -Uu system' and 'emerge -Uu world'?

The only problem is that new config files need to be dealt with by hand. Of
course, if you always use defaults, even this can be handled by emerge.

But, I get your point.

> Redhat's nice in that it's got the 'RedHat update utility' for getting 
> security updates... as long as I put a web browser, office suite, and DVD 
> player on that doesn't crash he should be happy... not everyone needs the 
> latest versions ;)

Similar with SuSE. I guess most serious distros have this feature.



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