Fedora and Ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 29/11/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
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>>     Pup and yum on F7 are a pain. Often when the message is for 10 new
>> updates I do it in a terminal. Either way it is quite slow. But it works.
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>>     Ubuntu uses apt-get and a GUI thing like Pup but it works much
>> better. I have no desire to do it in a terminal. When I set it up the
>> first time it took 90 updates. I was amazed how fast it went and zero
>> problems. There are several things not Fedora or normal Ubuntu
>> applications that I MUST have. On Ubuntu they are all a simple # apt-get
>> install and they do all the work bringing in the necessary libs and such.
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>>     At this time I can say the Ubuntu update system is very superior to
>> Pup and yum used on Fedora. I suggest Fedora look close at Ubuntu and
>> see how to get it working here.
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> You can use apt-get and synaptic with Fedora too.
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> yum install apt-get synaptic
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> and now you can run apt-get on Fedora.
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>>     Both systems use Gnome and that makes both look VERY similar. A nice
>> feature of Ubuntu is that that mount all the Linux systems on boot to
>> /mnt and you can then, of course transfer things from the Fedora systems
>> to Ubuntu. Or the reverse.
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>>     Ubuntu is based on Debian and the place that files go and do are odd
>> to a Fedora user. There is no grub.conf and /etc/fstab is a real MESS! I
>> am not sure my Fedora /home directory can be used with Ubuntu, but I
>> will try just for fun.
>>
>> Karl
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>>         Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>         Linux User
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    I got apt-get and it is just 3 -5 times faster than yum on F7!

So it is available and I suggest EVERYONE get it ASAP. You will be glad 
you did.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.