[Malvern] Etchasketch

[Richard Forster]

Hi Geoff, erm I mean Chris[1]

<rant>
Grrrrrr!!!!!!

For the last blinkin' time...[2]

1) You can get apt for Fedora if you want to.
2) You don't need to because Yum does the same thing as apt.


That was like me saying I don't want to give up yum and go over to dpkg 
if I used a debian-ish distro.

You'd be more correct nowadays to say things like:
"Fedora doesn't have a GUI"
"Fedora doesn't run on AMD processors"
"Debian includes SE-Linux, Fedora doesn't"
"Fedora drinks your beer and throws knives at you[3]"
"Debian has an official style of headgear, Fedora doesn't even know what 
a hat is[4]"


</rant>

Andy. Be sure to read the various FAQs on how to add the repositories 
that provide the packages US law won't let them distribute. Also, if you 
use a NVIDIA or ATI card try to use one of the 3rd party repositories 
that distribute the 3D driver as an rpm rather than using the nvidia 
driver download. The nvidia one works but overwrites some of the files 
without telling the rpm database and so makes uninstalling it harder 
than it should be, if you ever need to.


Cheers

Rick

[1] It's normally Geoff's job to state that apt is better than rpm.
[2] Probably not the last time, to be fair.
[3] okay, that one is debatable.
[4] I'll stop now.


Chris Eilbeck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Andy Dixon wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>The strangest thing happened when I got back last night.
>>
>>After I sat down with a beer, opened my laptop and loaded up Etch, I  
>>found that Alsa, Alsa-Modules, Alsa-Utils and Alsa-Tools all  
>>disappeared.
>>
>>Has this happened to any one else?
> 
> 
> I've had similar things happen when Sarge became stable and packages started
> disappearing from unstable.
> 
> 
>>I'm downloading FC5 DVD iso at the mo, started it last night, so  
>>giving that a try instead.
> 
> 
> Is there anything you need from unstable in particular?  Have you considered
> using Ubuntu/Kubuntu?  That's more modern than Debian stable.  I'd be
> reluctant to give up the apt system now and move back to Redhat or Mandriva.
> 
> Chris