There are two very distinct types of Linux Admins: Those who prefer
BSD, and those who prefer SYSV5.
I smell manure
Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros
(Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to
please the BSD centric crowd.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:59:50 +0100
From: Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.red...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com
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2009/9/11 Hiisi very-c...@rambler.ru:
I wouldn't be so sure. They're about half of year back. And they use
deb-packages - there's no yum. Recently I installed Ubuntu 9.04
(Jaunty) on my girlfriend' laptop. I never entered root pass during
installation process. Instead I created user for her
... And they use
deb-packages - there's no yum.
They guys who have to actually package up our software at work
consider that an advantage. From the practical complications
involved in packaging, they say deb packages are infinitely
easier to understand and generate than rpms.
Fedora on the
Tom Horsley wrote:
... And they use deb-packages - there's no yum.
They guys who have to actually package up our software at work
consider that an advantage. From the practical complications
involved in packaging, they say deb packages are infinitely easier
to understand and generate than
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Then there is the synaptic tool, which makes all fedora gui update
tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(.
Since doing updates is a common operation visible to all users
across all distros, I've always suspected
On 09/12/2009 10:46 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Then there is the synaptic tool, which makes all fedora gui update
tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(.
Since doing updates is a common operation visible to all
On 09/12/2009 03:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 09/12/2009 10:46 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Then there is the synaptic tool, which makes all fedora gui update
tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(.
2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org:
On 09/12/2009 10:46 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Then there is the synaptic tool, which makes all fedora gui update
tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(.
Since
gil...@altern.org wrote:
Of course Distrowatch's stats don't mean much: it's only how many click a
distro received. But I doubt that Fedora users, contrary to Ubuntu's users
maybe, go to Distrowatch only to give the counter a ride.
Here are the figures:
1 Ubuntu 2003
2
On 09/13/2009 01:50 AM, rgheck wrote:
That's true, but of course it doesn't do upgrades as cleanly as on
Debian-based systems.
Not sure what you mean by that. However remember the tool is just one
small portion of what makes upgrades work. The release intervals,
packaging, custom packages
On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
dpkg/apt-get front end.
It uses apt-rpm in Fedora.
Rahul
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On 09/13/2009 05:27 AM, Phil Meyer wrote:
Those who prefer BSD enjoy working on Debian or Debian based distros
(Like Ubuntu) and provide base level tools and administration likely to
please the BSD centric crowd. The problem is that BSD and SYSV5 both
had very rudimentary packaging tools,
2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org:
On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
dpkg/apt-get front end.
It uses apt-rpm in Fedora.
Forgive my ignorance here Rahul, but does that mean apt-rpm does what
yum
On 09/13/2009 10:39 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org:
On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
dpkg/apt-get front end.
It uses apt-rpm in Fedora.
Forgive my ignorance here
Of course Distrowatch's stats don't mean much: it's only how many click a
distro received. But I doubt that Fedora users, contrary to Ubuntu's users
maybe, go to Distrowatch only to give the counter a ride.
Here are the figures:
1 Ubuntu 2003
2 Fedora 1605
3
maybe we (fedora community) are all just more expert than we think?! :-P
On 09/11/2009 11:25 AM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
Of course Distrowatch's stats don't mean much: it's only how many click a
distro received. But I doubt that Fedora users, contrary to Ubuntu's users
maybe, go to
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:27 -0700, jack craig wrote:
maybe we (fedora community) are all just more expert than we think?! :-P
On 09/11/2009 11:25 AM, gil...@altern.org wrote:
Of course Distrowatch's stats don't mean much: it's only how many click a
distro received. But I doubt that Fedora
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 16:08 -0400, Kavon Farvardin wrote:
Fedora is as easy as Ubuntu to use (and I've less issues than with
Ubuntu), I don't see what the fuss is about
I use Fedora (about 10 servers, home, laptops). I love Fedora. But not
always work fine:
2009/9/11 Kavon Farvardin kavo...@gmail.com:
Fedora is as easy as Ubuntu to use (and I've less issues than with
Ubuntu), I don't see what the fuss is about
Fedora colour scheme is predominantly blue.
Ubuntu colour scheme is predominantly brown
/end differences
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Kavon Farvardin wrote:
Fedora is as easy as Ubuntu to use (and I've less issues than with
Ubuntu), I don't see what the fuss is about
A big plus for me certainly was that it installed on my relatively new
desktop hardware and everything worked no question asked.
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