Meant to send it to the list.
Thaths
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Subject: Re: [LIH] which distribution better
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:46:26 -0700
From: Sudhakar Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: A Doubleplusgood Mega Corporation
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian proclaimed:
> Not tried corel linux before, but I believe it is based on Debian,
> not Redhat.
Corel is based on an ancient Debian release.
> As for the RPMs, you'd have to use alien to convert them to debian
> packages, which I suppose would install quite ok on corel linux.
If anything, there are more .deb packages than .rpm packages. So instead
of downloading an rpm, converting it to deb using alien and pushing your
luck, just search http://packages.debian.org/ to see if the software has
already been packaged.
The core RH distribution is fine. But rpmfind.net is a nightmare. Let us
say I want to download the rpm for ssh. I go to this hard to navigate site
and see that there are 3-4 rpm packages of the same version of ssh (ALL for
the same architecture!). How do I decide which one to download? Besides,
reporting bugs to some J. Random Package Maintainer's package is a pain.
Thaths
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