On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:35:05AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:20, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> > > the essential pros and cons of each of the distributions. I'm > > > asking because for me the best thing about Debian (besides others) > > > is the package manager system. Now I've heard RedHat 9 has > > > something that resembles apt, which would put down this advantage > > > of Debian. So, what do you think? > > RedHat does not have apt. apt was ported to support RPM long ago by > Connectiva. Now, you can manualy go and install apt on major RPM based > distros, like RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake. But, apt-rpm (as it is called) > does not enjoy the advantages that it enjoys in Debian. I used apt-rpm > when I had a RedHat 7.3 box, and it was completely useless. Because the > repositories are so small (again, because the original company does not > support it), that it is useless. Only a hanfull of applications, can > work with apt-rpm. Hey, apt-rpm works nice and there are several free repositorys with add-on packages for RH. www.freshrpms.net is apt-get able I maintain myself a few add on packages in a apt-get able rep wrack.telelev.net If you need you're free to build your own local apt-get able rep. Apt-rpm knows about the file method ;) Sven -- It really sucks to give your heart to a girl You want to know her like she knows the whole world But 10 seconds in, it's obvious, your going nowhere... [Bowling for Soup - Drunk Enough To Dance - I Don't Wanna Rock] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
