On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:27:56 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > > or worse: every window > manager maker would have to include their own configuration tool. >
There are over 300 distributions listed on distrowatch.com . There are about 5 or 10 (give or take a few) popular Window Managers, with only 2 really big ones. You do the math. Seems to me it would be *better*, not worse, if every WM included its own desktop configuration tool, instead of the distributions themselves doing so. > > I think URPMI is good enough for my needs, and Mandrake's graphical > interface for urpmi (rpmdrake) beats synoptic in ease of use every time, > but you are entitled to your opinion. > I used Mandrake from version 8.0 all the way to 10.1, at which point I switched to Mepis. Mandrake's configuration tools, including rpmdrake, kick-ass. I totally agree there. But can you really compare the wealth of packages offered by apt to those offered by rpm? After making the switch, I can say, at least based on my personal experience, that using an apt based distribution is simply better, hands down. > For a modern linux distro which uses apt for configuration managment I'd > recommend either Xandros OS which is terrific even if a bit on the > commercial side, or Yoper which I haven't tried myself but read raving > reviews on and apparently it supports both RPM and DEB packages out of > the box (a big plus for the DEB oriented guy as most of today's > commercial software for linux only comes in RPM format). I'm not really into commercial software, but being able to use both RPM and DEB sounds appealing to me. I'll give Yoper a look - thanks. -- Offer Kaye ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
