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

[Peter Cannon]

Hi Matt

Thought you'd forgotten me!

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:16, Matthew Revell wrote:

> 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.

Now heres a thing, up2date stopped working for a bit but I think due to
threats of violence it now works but from a different repository (don't
all throw bricks at me if this is wrong) I only make that observation
because I don't use it I use yum from bash. Some days it is quite slow
but I think thats due to the amount of people trying to yum-update-stuff
Yum is supposed to do a similar trick of finding software but either I'm
inputting the wrong command or command format it will only find stuff if
you give the full info i.e cdroast.mna-6356.i386.rpm (this is fictitious
by the way) if you just put cdroast it finds nothing.

I tried to install apt on my Fedora laptop but it got as far as make and
went t*@& up on me. so now I have bits of apt sitting on my HDD wasting
storage.
> 
> 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.

Its a bit of a bloke thing, you know? we all have an old jumper, coat or
shirt probably got holes in it but we wont chuck it out we feel safe in
it! I started off with RH9 I like the stupid things that I know you will
all say can be done with any OS i.e. the confirmation beep when you get
to the log in screen, I like the System Monitor which is like Task
manager I understand that and has got me out of trouble many a time.

However there are bits of Suse I like too so I suppose there's a Linux
evolution to be had Fedse?

-- 

Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

I sit on a mans back chocking him and making him carry me 
and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for
him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible except
getting off his back!
--Tolstoy