Hi Mathieu Many schools use Scientific Linux 6.x. This is a stable release, and is geared to universities, (CGEPs) and research groups.
Fedora is the unstable version of Red Hat. Debian Unstable is the equivalent to Fedora. It is too bad that CGEP starts next week, but if you have time, please explore CentOS or Scientific Linuxs (either). The are what we call super stable. For servers, I have no statistics about which is the most used distributions, after RedHat. Fedora is the test bed. Fedora development tries to put out a clean product, but when bugs are found, we use bugzilla to report them. I have a Debian problem right now with my 32bit installation (2.6.32-5-686). Apt and synaptic crashes on update attempts. So, if I cannot update, how can I fix other problems? Every distribution has it's followers and good points. I like Debian for cleanness. But like your experience with LXDE, I have mine with Synaptic. Please visit Scientific website. SL6.3 and Centos are essentially the same product, under the covers. ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein 50 years in Information Technology and going strong. Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, and tomorrow will be even better. mailto:[email protected] alternative: [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Wed, 8/8/12, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> wrote: From: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Subject: [MLUG] Using aptitude [was: Re: gotchas for refugee from ubuntu/debian-land new to Fedora?] To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 10:48 AM On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I used aptitude for upgrades from one release to the next even when they > were recommending apt a few years ago. I've even used it once in a > chroot so I could go on running my server while upgrading a copy of the > system. The only problems I've ever run into were running out of disk > space during the install, and a few packages whose > configuration required already running on a new kernel (that > was in the chroot, which had a new kernel but was still using the old > one). But they configured themselves just fine when I booted into the > new system. Seems I was out of date. With 0.6.6; at least some of the multiarch handling issues were fixed, and there were further changes since that. There are still bugs open against aptitude for multiarch support [1], so I'd still be careful. Nothing of it is really terrible, but it requires being careful enough to look at the output properly before accepting changes. [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aptitude.html Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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