On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:49 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:08 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > > At this rate it starts to seem, considering that eventually someone I > > know will get one of these and expect the level of meddling I can do for > > Fedora, that perhaps one can no longer practically avoid getting > > experienced with The Debian Way as well as the Redhat Way... > > Back when, Esau sold his birthright for some "red meat pottage". > (Gen-25:30-34) I had high hopes that Fedora would be the "Windows > Killer" and that the likes of Dell, Hp, etc. would all be on the > bandwagon. Alas Yoric, it'll be .deb. instead. Ric > I recently put Ubuntu 7.4 on one of my machines in order to see the Ubuntu (Debian way). Synaptic has some advantages over yum based installers but all in all using Ubuntu makes me feel like I am in a box. I am still stuck not being able to add an alternate repository to my repository list. So far adding software resolves itself to compiling rather than finding the equivalent binary rpm. -- ======================================================================= Who's scruffy-looking? -- Han Solo ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
