Ah, then I shall do the debian testing method. I just need to have a current, stable system, if possible, as I said before. I was never really a fan of fedora myself but figured I'd ask.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] friendly installs > 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 > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.6/1193 - Release Date: > 12/22/2007 2:02 PM > > _______________________________________________ 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
