Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks

[Bob Hemus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks


> 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.
>
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

Curious why if there are no RPM type install programs you don't use a binary 
install?
Isn't it possible to install near every thing that way?
Bob