URPMI For Fedora Core 2

Jaroslaw Zachwieja writes "Stefan van der Eijk, the autor of Slbd - automated tool to rebuild distributions to different architectures/processors in a sanitized environment, has published set of RPMS of URPMI for Fedora Core 2. The only usage difference is that it uses hdlist instead of compressed hdlist.cz known from Mandrake. Are we one step further towards Cross-distro RPMS?"

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Debian

[RAMMS EIN]

I'll keep repeating this until posts about RPM being good/not doing dependencies/both no longer get modded up.

If you want package management to Just Work(TM), use Debian. It comes with apt-get, which automatically downloads and installs your package _and_ its dependencies, and because Debian (AFAIK) has the largest collection of packages, the chance of it really finding your package and dependencies is higher than for any other distro, even one that uses the same tools.

Now to dispell some common misconceptions:

1. Debian is _not_ far behind the bleeding edge. The stable distribution is, and that's because their policy is to keep the packages at the same versions (and only backport security fixes) so that your configurations files etc. will still work _exactly_ as they used to. If you want the latest and greatest, use Debian unstable, which is still of excellent quality (despite the name), but has the occasional breakages that any distro on the bleeding edge has.

2. Debian is not hard to install. The installer is text-based, and, indeed, gives you lots of text, explaining what needs to be done. The old installer did not automagically detect hardware, which means you would have to use trial and error to figure out which driver to use with your network card. The new installer will be better, but still has bugs that need to be squashed. Whichever installer you use, it is not hard. At least, I don't see what's hard about it, and I have asked people to tell me what it is, to no avail.

So, do yourself a favor, and give Debian a spin. Chances are you'll like it.