On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 23:45, Johnno wrote: > I was running mandrake on the servers for a while, and updating them was a > little time taking. > > >From what I have heard RH has up2date and linuxconf (mandrake has this > too).. > > Does 8.0 have these features? or have they changed? or is 9.0 better to go > with?
What I'm liking is using apt-get with Redhat apt repositories Now I can go apt-get install mozilla-firebird and it'll fetch it down and install it for me. apt-get update as a daily cron job keeps the local list of what's available nicely up to date, so when the weekend comes along I can go apt-get upgrade mozilla-firebird and it pulls down the latest version, if it's there. Even better, if I'm feeling cocky is to use apt-get dist-upgrade and EVERYTHING gets the update process done to it. But that's just the command line. There's a gorgous front end called Synaptic that gives you a visual tree of all the RPMs, and makes exploration even easier. The best thing about apt-get / Synaptic is that dependencies are sorted out and (with you being notified) taken care of for you. Now when I want to install anything I don't head off to a website and search for an RPM to download, I instead fire up Synaptic, put the name I want in the search bar and install it from there. -- Paul Wilkins
