Fedora woes was Re: [Wolves] Morphix/Debian and CD drives

Matthew Revell wolveslug at understated.co.uk
Tue Apr 13 15:16:46 BST 2004


Peter Cannon wrote:

>>After a brief, and misguided, dalliance with Fedora over the weekend, I 
>>reinstalled Morphix Gnome, then did a dist-upgrade to Sid, yesterday.

> Whats wrong with Fedora? I love it :-) Don't know anything about Morphix
> other than my recent post.

Erm, it didn't really seem to offer anything that made up for the loss 
of APT. Apt is Debian's equivalent of RPM, except it doesn't have the 
problems of dependencies (99.9% of the time). Also, Debian users can 
type "apt-get install" then the name of just about any imaginable Linux 
software and it's all setup and ready to go in minutes.

Fedora has some nice touches - some graphical config tools and the 
little thing that puts you through to "root" when you try to do 
something in a GUI environment that needs root access. It made it no 
easier to find my CD drives than Morphix did and it had me very 
frustrated every time I tried to install something. Oh, and the Red Hat 
up2date tool is bloody slow.

:)


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