On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:49:43 +1200 (NZST) Steve Holdoway wrote: > > On Thu, September 29, 2005 1:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:22:40 +1200 > > Richard Tindall wrote: > > > >> Steve Holdoway wrote: > >> > >> >RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE... can anyone think of any other x86 > >> >distros that use them? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> BLAG has always piqued my curiosity: > >> > >> http://www.blagblagblag.org > >> > >> - FC3. > >> > >> Brixton must be an area you'd know well too. My first-ever Tube ride > >> finished there. > > > > it actually looks damned cool. if i was still in my distro junky phase i > > would try it! > > > > > > > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Was a bit confused, as they seem to advocate the use of apt for package > management.
apt works well on top of rpm - apt-rpm was pioneered by connectiva (theres an important rpm distro in a large part of the world - a ppor part too, and one that doesn't kowtow to the US, so they are quite into FLOSS). rpm is ine as far as it goes, but it needs something on top to make it as good as apt-dpkg. rpm will tell you that you can't install kde because you haven't installed X. apt-rpm or yum will tell you that AND it will offer to do it all for you, just like apt does on debian. Thats why we have apt-rpm, yum, redhat-network etc etc. Its kind of like apt-rpm is to rpm what apt is to dpkg. > > I think you should try it Nick, anything to wean you off that [EMAIL > PROTECTED]@ > gentoo... 36 hours compilation on a dual athlon box just to get to the > point of an installed system with a graphical interface! At least it > installs on vmware now (: NAH if you want a gentoo system install a stage 3 then the rest from the binaries and re-compile when/if needed. (I need to recompile some already because i want some mroe features in mplayer than the gentoo binary gave me, but getting _all_ codecs going in mplayer isn't trivial on any distro.) even compiling you are talking bollox. (unless you equate ALL of kde or gnome to "a graphical interface") > > Anyway, we're all the wrong colour to walk those streets safely any more! > > Cheers, > > > Steve > Do you get music by the Clash as well ( best punk album ever - side 2, > track 3 I think )??? > > -- > Windows: Where do you want to go today? > MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? > Linux: Are you coming or what? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
