Maybe Im missing something, but isnt the goverment openly saying they want to read our mail, and we should be happy about it. I hope no one takes offense to this, but when I was a child growing up in america, the USSR was considered "evil". I was told horror stories about how bad their goverment was, and stories about how amazing ours was. I distinctly remember being told that in Russia, the goverment read your mail, people werent allowed to talk freely, and you could only where what they would allow you to (I understand that this may have been propaganda). Well here in 2000 the US goverment is trying hard to make that a reality here.
My point here is that, I dont care if jesus, buddha, ghandi, and Martin Lurther King are reviewing, The goverment is trying to read our mail. In America, The goverment is openly trying to read our mail!
the fact that all distros are the same except for 3 things (imho): installation, configuration, and upgrading. So this is where the debate lies. these three differences define our distributions. and the package manager plays an important role in all three aspects. I would have to say that either can install equally well, however apt-get beats rpm on the other two fronts.
Ask any debian user why they use it, and one of the first 3 things theyll say (and more than likely the first) is ease of update.
so why keep rpm? because so many of us are familiar with it? I hope not. If that were the case we should all be using windows. I really see no valid reason to continue using rpm. Thats my 2 cents
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this is the end. Ive been using Suse for a while and the reason for my staying with them, was the low price per software ratio. I think this route will seriously destroy the thing they had going for them. Debian here I come.
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My point here is that, I dont care if jesus, buddha, ghandi, and Martin Lurther King are reviewing, The goverment is trying to read our mail. In America, The goverment is openly trying to read our mail!
Ask any debian user why they use it, and one of the first 3 things theyll say (and more than likely the first) is ease of update.
so why keep rpm? because so many of us are familiar with it? I hope not. If that were the case we should all be using windows. I really see no valid reason to continue using rpm. Thats my 2 cents
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