Fedora and Ubuntu
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Fri Nov 30 19:34:11 UTC 2007
Lamar Owen 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.
>
> Now, I had issues after the reboot, but that was a different deal that was
> easily fixed (the video card was set up incorrectly, and X wouldn't start
> until reconfigured (which was a very easy task; apt's equivalents
> to %pre, %post, %preun, and %postun are much much more powerful than what RPM
> gives you)).
>
> The Ubuntu upgrader GUI is quite a bit faster than pup. And synaptic is still
> far and away better than pirut or any of the yum frontends. Adept-installer
> (under kubuntu this is the default instead of the GTK synaptic) is much more
> like pirut, but it is faster.
>
You know much more about the details than I do. All I can say is
Ubuntu is much faster at upgrading. And so much so it is important.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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