"apt" to eventaully replace "rpm"?

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/11/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> >>    That sounds like a writer with Debian experience and a feeling Apt
> >> is easier than RPM. There are some things in RPM that are quite odd.
> >> I think Apt is a simpler method. I have ubuntu-7.10 loaded and it
> >> uses Apt and it seems to update as well as RPM.
> >
> > It is not really correct to compare apt to rpm, a better comparison
> > would be to compare apt to yum (or at a lower level rpm to dpkg).
> >
> > Chris
> >
>     Yes your right. I am going to reload my ubuntu and see if the first
> cut is a flook. I loaded it and it gave me the crooked image on my
> screen. Then the screen went blank for about 30 minutes it seemed like
> but really about 4 minutes. Then up came a real looking almost perfect
> image just like it looked after installing. I seems to know about Nvidia
> and does the right thing.
>
>     If the thing is real then the ubuntu loader is smarter than
> anaconda. And it is still just one CD-rom :-)
>

On my ATI laptop, the latest Fedoras (>=6) will not give me a GUI if I
install with Anaconda. The Ubuntu installer gets it right almost every
time. And it is still just one CD-rom :-)

Dotan Cohen

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