On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:12:58PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote: > how do I do this? and what about fedora?
You do a clean install of Debian Etch, or alternatively you can download an installation image of Debian Testing. Once it's basically installed, you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change the distribution listed in each of the configuration lines from stable to testing (or unstable if you really want the latest - not necessarily reliable - packages). After that, you run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and answer any questions asked along the way. Fedora is a good and well maintained distribution, but it has a couple of particularly relevant disadvantages: 1. The collection of packages is much smaller than in Debian. Moreover, third-party RPM packages are reputedly often not maintained at the same level of quality as those in the core distribution. With Debian, the package quality is generally at a high standard, due to the Debian packaging policies and quality assurance procedures. 2. Live upgrades of Fedora are not officially supported - that is, you have to boot an installation image and re-install when you want to upgrade, whereas with Debian you can just run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the distribution. BRLTTY isn't yet included on Fedora installation disks by default. If most of the software you need is in the Fedora distribution itself (rather than in third-party packages), then it should work well, except for the upgrade issue noted above. It is, as I pointed out, well maintained by competent developers. As to why they don't make sure that live upgrades with Yum always work from one Fedora release to the next, I don't know. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
