On 12:27:21 am 12/28/04 Nigel Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a simple question: did you have to pay for Mandrakelinux ISOs that everyone could donwload from official ftp mirrors? Did you have to pay for using it? Did you have to pay for applying security updates? *All* packages on the 3 CDs are GPL'ed and are also free as in beer. If you say Mandrakelinux is NOT free in general then I need to look up what free means. If you say Mandrakelinux commercial version, the box version that they add commercial applications, is not FREE then I need to get some coffee because it is so obvious.
I might be wrong, but I thought to be able to download Mandrake we have to be it's member (which has to pay something). That's why I got that thinking :). Finally, there is no thing wrong with Mandrake :), I admit that (and most other distro, after all they just differ from how they packs, what their market niche...)
Get your point, I just move to test gentoo recently about a week but u are making me nervous :P . Here the concurren emerge is getting me in trouble :P. sun-jre-bin 1.5 is masked. I added it to package.keyworks, get it install with file-roller and heaps of other stuff :( & started cooking my dinner. When I go back :( sun-jre-bin failed :( somes other stuff is not yet installed. Some of sun-jre depencies is installed some are not :P ... oh well to me ... what a mess :). Just a story to share.
I was just hopping you explain some features in apt that are not available
in urpmi so I could learn.
All the package management tools have their limits. As far as I know, you can't apt-get multiple times concurrently whereas emerge could :) But then I'm not saying emerge is better either. Hope you'll get the point.
Nigel
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