[NCLUG] keeping a linux distribution up-to-date

Joshua SS Miller joshua at fitsnips.net
Thu May 8 11:04:57 MDT 2003


If you want to use RedHat but really like the apt-get feature of debian
try apt-rpm.

http://freshrpms.net/apt/

Joshua SS Miller

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:51, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> On 07 May 2003 at 22:07:29, Neil Doane moved bits on my disk to say:
> 
> > Personally, I think Debian's apt-get rules all day long over the RedHat
> > Notwork crap.  :)
> 
> Don't go there.
> 
> Having said that, I've had four friends now rant and rave about how much
> they like Gentoo and its emerge.
> 
> I've been wanting to try it, but... since it takes a good weekend to get it
> up and running... The upside to *that*, though, is I'm told everything is
> much faster when you compile it yourself (with all your CPU-specific -Os
> on).
> 
> Later,
> Paul
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