[ale] Fedora Core2 ISOs

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Thu Feb 19 12:08:10 EST 2004


On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:54 am, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:48:17PM -0500, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > Yep.  I'm playing with it now.  I haven't run across any show-stopping
> > > issues, but I am getting a little annoyed with some of the yum updating
> > > stuff.  I finally downloaded the yum updates to my web server, and am
> > > trying to update from there, and am getting stuck in dependency limbo.
> >
> > You might try apt.  It is said to be much faster and almost equally easy.
> >  I like it a lot.
>
> 	I've tried both and found apt to be neither.  Trashed it at warp
> speed after playing with yum.  Probably just boils down to personal taste,
> though.  Either are better than trying to set up your owen up2date server
> (current) which I've also done.  :-(

That's interesting.  The people I work with were all compolaining about yum, 
so I turned 'em on to apt and they loved it.  I must admit I haven't tried 
yum myself.

Michael



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