Fedora and Ubuntu
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Nov 30 00:27:56 UTC 2007
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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Intersting. I will do that and see how it works. It should be a good
thing to know. Can you get updates with apt-get?
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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.
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>> Karl
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>> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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