Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:33:13 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Having run RH7.3 for a while and having used up2date, I must agree with
you.  Of the mega distros, I like RedHat best.  I gave up on RH simply
because I couldn't find compatible packages for a lot of the toys I
wanted to play with.  For unsophisticated users, RH is a good choice.


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
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