On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Brian France wrote: > David, > I am confused here. I am very new to this Linux stuff admittedly. > Just installed RedHad 9 on a lap top in the last month. Have this > young guy here who has "grown up" on Linux. With his help after > the install, I went to a site, entered a command (RPM) with some > flags, then did various apt get commands. SO, am asking what am > I missing in your statement below? It appears to me that apt-get > also works for RedHat.
It has been ported to Red Hat Linux by some third-party folk (and some others). However, without the support of the vendor (Red Hat in this case), it's not fully functional. If Red Hat releases a new kernel, then someone else has to update the repository after Red Hat's release. In contrast, as soon as Debian releases a new package (and it propogates through the mirrors) apt-get on my computer automatically finds the package. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
