Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks

[Collins Richey]

On 5/3/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:33, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:56 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:26, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > > > > > Whereas I have found SuSE to be ideal for my needs. My favorable
> > > > > > experiences with SuSE far outweigh any I have had with Fedora.
> > > > >
> > > > > Same here.
> > > >
> > > > Where I've found Suse to be wanting is third party packages. It has been
> > > > my experience that installing third part software on Fedora is much
> > > > easier, especially since yum has become the standard. Last I tried Suse
> > > > (9.2? 9.3?) I had all kinds of trouble figuring out how to upgrade KDE to
> > > > the latest (and gave up trying). Has that changed?
> > >
> > > I've run into similar problems with SLES & SuSE-10.  I couldn't find any
> > > decent sized collection of 3rd paryt RPMs for SuSE.  Just about everything
> > > is for RH/FC.
> >
> > Did you ever try the packman site?
> >
> > packman.links2linux.com
>
> Yup.  What they list pales in comparison to what's available for RH/FC.

Yep, also pales in comparison to packages available for any Debian distro.


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