I stopped using RedHat (before Fedora) in favour of Debian, to get out of the RPM "dependency hell". At the time, there was no YUM to resolve the package dependencies, like APT does so well. But I remember my experience with YUM on the XO computer (from the OLPC project); it was was extremely slow. With Ubuntu it was much faster to customize a new system for my XO. Here's a few benchmarks to compare YUM with APT: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7382/
I know from experience that .deb based distributions are easier to use than .rpm distributions, especially on slow computers (like the XO or the Raspberry Pi). For maintainers, rpm packages are easier to build, so that might be why you prefer Fedora. Marc Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <na...@ccrma.stanford.edu> a écrit : > On 07/04/2012 01:44 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > > [MUNCH]... > >But I much prefer Debian based distributions (like > > Ubuntu) for their APT packaging system (instead of RPM on Fedora > > based distributions). > > Caveat (apt != rpm): > underlying package system: .deb packages in Debian, .rpm packages in > Fedora dependency resolvers: apt in Debian, yum in Fedora > > I have used both apt and yum, they do the job... You don't want|have > to deal with deb or rpm packages directly, you always install them > using apt or yum. > > -- Fernando > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
