Robert Shepard wrote: > I just installed fedora core 2 this weekend, and I was wondering: > What are the differences between apt, yum, and up2date? I had been running > Mandrake, and it seems that urpmi did all of the functions of these 3 > applications, although I may be mistaken about their usage. I don't think there are a lot of differences. apt and yum basically do the same thing. up2date uses yum to download and update the system. I used yum to update my system. Here are some good articles about this stuff: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/8835 http://www.fedorafaq.org/ http://fedoraguide.org/fc2/fc2beginnersguide.html http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Hardening_Fedora.html http://fedoranews.org/updates/