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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:12:55PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > This is another thing I've been thinking of (and a huge reason to choose > Fedora vs Ubuntu). Personally, I have had my fair share of problems > with deb/apt and prefer rpm/yum. But I'd love to see a solid pro/con > list between the two because I don't have any reason to back that up > aside from personal preference and past experience. The huge win for deb/APT in my eyes is the option to upgrade from release to release without reinstalling. I have done this using Yum on Fedora, but it's not a straightforward process the way it is on Debian/Ubuntu. The twice yearly reinstallation of Fedora is a bit tiresome. Debian's package maintainers do base some of their policies on their particular dogma, but the Fedora maintainers do the same. They just have a different set of dogmas. I like Ubuntu because 'aptitude install flashplugin-installer' just works. Same for Sun Java. Red Hat/CentOS is a lovely server distribution, but has rather stale packages for a desktop machine. I suppose Red Hat 6 will solve this for a while. It has some of the same problems with proprietary software though. My two cents, etc. -ben -- there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. <francis bacon>
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