the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Harry Giles wrote:
> 
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>> There's this thing called 'alien' that Debian puts out that I looked at 
>> for a few minutes on Google that supposedly lets one install rpms on 
>> debian-based boxes.  Do you have any experience with that?  
> 
> I have used alien many times to convert rpm's into debs with no 
> problem.  Never used it in reverse though.  Maybe you could test it on 
> your existing box first.

This is good news.  I'm going to try to preserve my box in it's current 
state and pull things over to the new box so I don't break the old box.
Thanks



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