Re: [LUG] Fedora

[Paul M <tallpaul@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 07:43, Richard Brown wrote:
> 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.

One of the things going for Fedora is that it is apt-get (or you if you
prefer) based. The default sorces.list only does the stock fedora rpms
but there are plenty of other repositores out there

Paul M

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