On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 09:22, David Megginson wrote: > Greg Long writes: > > > I might go ahead and give Debian a shot on the install, seems like the > > distro of choice, and I have a separate Redhat box (233mhz, don't think > > its S3 Virge supports OpenGL, I'd have to look) but I could use that for > > testing Debian seems to be the choice by large, and if it supports > > rpm's I might as well muck around with it for a bit. > > Debian is a bear to install but a dream to maintain. While Magic > Carpet makes it easier than it used to be to pull in security fixes > and bug patches for a specific version of RedHat, it doesn't help > upgrading from one version to another. In Debian, when you're ready > to move from, say, potato, to woody or sid, you just update the paths > in /etc/apt/sources.list, then type > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > To move from one RedHat version to another, I usually had to reformat > my hard drive.
Which isn't to say that apt-get, dpkg, dselect, et.al. don't have their own warts. For example, Red Carpet seems to be good about telling you what's going on whereas with apt-get, AFAICT, its really hard to find out why apt-get upgrade won't install something. That said, however, it does seem to be true that you'll only ever need to install Debian once on a given system. > > > All the best, > > > David > > -- > David Megginson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
