Fedora and Ubuntu

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 18:38:21 UTC 2007


On Nov 30, 2007 12:07 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2007, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     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.
>
> Having worked with Ubuntu, and done a few 7.04 to 7.10 upgrades through that
> GUI, I'll second this.  After doing the initial update, a section of the
> updater is added, which includes a button to do a version upgrade.  No reboot
> until the packages are downloaded and installed, then you reboot into the
> upgraded system.  The Debian systems have for a long time had a smoother
> version upgrade mechanism.


Seriously though, you guys need to stop feeding Karl. More so, stop
quoting him, there by getting his post past my filters.

Thank you.

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