Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Tim Wunder]

On 8/29/2003 9:45 AM, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Hey!
I sure hope you don't mean that all RH-users are unsophisticated users...

FWIW apt for rpm and synaptic provide nice GUI front-ends to RPM...
http://freshrpms.net/apt/

Regards,
Tim