Re: [LUG] Fedora

[Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter

Being a relative newbie I would suggest going a Debian route. A bigger 
learning curve but.... I am sure you have heard of dependancy hell! 
Well I go with the route that many Linux folks want to go, i.e. one way 
of installing a package. Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse tend to use their own 
installers. I am not sure whether this is good for the community and so 
I say go with what has to be the best and easiest way to install 
software! That is apt-get.

There are some commercial packages out on the Linux circuit, Libranet, 
Lindows, someone was kind enough to send me a copy and I could burn of 
a copy for you but the thing about these commercial packages is that 
they use apt-get. It is bullet proof in terms of dependancies.

Anyway, 'nuff said... I wished that I had gone the Debian route right 
from the start! Hope all goes well whatever route you take!

Rich


On 21 May 2004, at 19:25, Peter L-J wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am slowly moving to Linux, using currently Red Hat 9.  (This email is
> an example of the slow migration).  However it appears that Fedora is a
> better bet than Red Hat 9.  Does any one recommend not moving to 
> Fedora?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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