Fedora

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
>> > Fedora question. I'm a Debian user, thinking of having a look at the new
>> > Fedora release. Any warnings, gotchas, whatever, I should be aware of
>> > before
>> > installing on my multi-boot desktop?
>>
>> If by Debian you mean real 'Debian' (as opposed to Ubuntu, etc), then
>> no, there shouldn't be any big surprises.  But that assumes that
>> you're running a very up recent Debian, not stable or something with a
>> software stack dating back to the last decade.
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> Yes, I'm running Debian testing (I think it's squeeze). I have heard Fedora
> escaped from rpm hell in recent years, so perhaps I'm willing to have a
> look. (I remember rpm hell)

Fedora uses yum for managing the RPMs (installing, dependency
resolution, etc).   There are numerous yum GUIs too, but i've never
used any of them.


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