Care to offer a ranking of distros, according to user/newbie
friendliness?
Based on reviews, and some (but not all) personal experience, I would like
to suggest some of the following distros:
- Xandros: looks like they've done a lot to make a solid, dependable,
Debian-based distro, with
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, TC wrote:
Actually, I overstate my han'lessness. I know more about this stuff
than your average Joe in the street. And the fact that *I* can't do
something as simple as this surely proves that Linux is still *miles*
away from Windows in usability for the common man.
... Linux is still *miles* away from Windows in usability for the
common man. *Miles*.
True. On Windows, you'd just wipe the disk and do a clean
re-install and then it would all work fine...
Often true. And the fact that Windows is still more usable, *despite*
that problem,
merely proves
... rpmfind.net has hits for both apt and yum, including the below
link for apt
Thanks.
... Are you talking miles away when RH9 was new, or still miles away
now that it has been
superceded by Fedora?
The former. I'm going to take a fresh copy of Fedora and see how that
performs.
I don't
* TC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
But it is pish awful - *so* pish awful as to overwhelm those undoubted
advantages - when it
comes to the average desktop user's needs.
ummm.
average desktop users need their OS to not crash every day.
iain
--
If sharing a thing in no
ummm.
average desktop users need their OS to not crash every day. iain
Sheesh, it really is like a religion, isn't it?
This sort of statement shows that it's not just The Evil Empire that
uses fear,
uncertainty and dread.
Windows doesn't crash every day. 98, didn't. 2K certainly doesn't.
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:30, Charles McCrimmon wrote:
anyway, i was just mailing to say i think this is nutz havin a public
argument/discussion about windows Vs Linux on a Lug mailing list utterly
nutz :D
a. It stemmed from a discussion about RPMs on Linux
b. It's still about Linux (albeit
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:30, Charles McCrimmon wrote:
anyway, i was just mailing to say i think this is nutz havin a public
argument/discussion about windows Vs Linux on a Lug mailing list utterly
nutz :D
a. It stemmed from a discussion about RPMs on Linux
b. It's still about Linux (albeit
Ive been following the thread, i made sure i read it right from the
start before replying.
i didnt add any fuel, just pointing out it was a useless argument thats
probably appeared on this mailing list a few times and never ever ends
well, no matter what the original subject was about, and i did
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On Saturday 12 June 2004 00:24, TC wrote:
So, original up2date is broken. Updating the broken up2date runs into
the very problem that up2date is meant to solve. And then finally, an
updated up2date can't get me through a basic up2date run without
If you want something that automatically resolves dependency problems, you
want either apt or yum.
And, at the risk of repeating the whole sorry tale, how would I get
hold of RPMs for apt or yum (given that I'm on RH 9.0)?
(FWIW, I *part* solved my multisync problem by downloading the
If you are using Mandrake, usr URPMI, it will sort the deps for you
Most RPM-based distributions now have some sort of automatic
dependency-resolving system. IIRC Fedora uses up2date, Mandrake uses urpmi,
and some use apt-rpm
Dependency resolution may have been an issue for convertees a
Most RPM-based distributions now have some sort of automatic
dependency-resolving system. IIRC Fedora uses up2date, Mandrake uses urpmi,
and some use apt-rpm
Ah, OK. Cool. So I'm using Redhat, in which case it mut be up2date.
First problem with that is that I hit what appears to be a
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On Friday 11 June 2004 10:14, TC wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] downloads]# rpm -Fvh up2date-3.1.23.2-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
up2date = 3.1.23 is needed by (installed)
up2date-gnome-3.1.23-1
up2date-gnome is the graphical
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 10:14, TC wrote:
Most RPM-based distributions now have some sort of automatic
dependency-resolving system. IIRC Fedora uses up2date, Mandrake uses
urpmi, and some use apt-rpm
Ah, OK. Cool. So I'm using Redhat, in which case it mut be up2date.
First problem with that
... fedora-legacy ...
That fixed it, thanks. I found the required new version of up2date
there.
I've now installed it and it runs OK, until it itself reports dependency
problems in the very list of RPMs it generates.
So, original up2date is broken. Updating the broken up2date runs into
the
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 00:09, TC wrote:
I'm trying to get multisync (http://www.multisync.org/) and synce
(http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/) going, to connect my WinCE PDA to
my linux box. As part of the messing-about I've tried to install the
multisync-evolution plugin, but I'm getting the
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