[Gllug] Recommended distro

[Richard Turner]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 00:52 +0000, mimo wrote: 
> I have tried yum on our _old_ RedHat machines too -- not the same. On
> debian I can use aptitude to go through different upgrade scenarios
> before I do them... This means that on a well configure debian system
> you can look at different versions of packages and find a combination
> that doesnt break dependencies. Also in terms of how quick you can do
> this yum was disapointing (probably my mistake) and looking for
> documentation for yum is quite adventorous...

Oh, there's no doubt about it, yum is slow and doesn't do anything very
sophisticated.  However, what it does it does well enough for me - after
typing 'yum -y update' it's not as if I have to watch it download and
install things.

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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