On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:28:38PM +0300, Dan Kaspi wrote: > Hi, > >I can easily update all of my software with the latest security updates. > > Well , if I am not wrong this is only specific to Debian. (BTW : I don't > know Debian : > I want to take advantage of this opportunity and ask : does > only non-stable Debian have this feature or also the stable Debian?)
Hmm... Let's not turn this into a distro fight. My preferences regarding distros are well known, but the same basically applies for quite a few other distros. > > And I assume it is possible to install in Debian a program not by using > that util ? (like running ./config and make and make install)? > (So this DEbian util does not cover all ) It is always possible to install packages independently of the distro's package management system. You'll generally be increasing your administrative costs but if you really want to: it's your system, not Deb or Ian's. > > I am using RH and Fedora; there is up2date util , but it does not cover > everything > (since there are sw packages which comes with an installer of their > own,etc). If you use Fedora + Fedora Extras + Freshrpms you'll get a reasonable coverage. Not the whole universe, but you can get most of what you need. > > Windows of course does not have such a util; there is LiveUpdate and > Microsoft WindowUpdate and > service packs; However, if you take other linux distros linux into account > , you can't tell that this is really > an advantage (unless there are some more distros which have this feature - > I don't know of such). All decent linux distros have good package management out-of-the-box. SuSE (all versions) and RHEL are basically the exceptions that don't support custom sources. But even on those, it is generally quite possible to install apt/yum and not use the default up2date/YOU. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
