Debian vs Suse

[Karl Schmidt]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> On Thursday, January 01, 2004 05:04 pm, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
>>So far I'm really liking what I see.  Libranet earned their money by
>>added a few time saving tools. So far I like it better than Redhat. An
>>example helps - I needed to install e3 (a tiny text editor I've grown
>>used to) and all I did to make this happen was to open the
>>Admin-libranet - click on add package from internet - it asks for the
>>package name - and it is finished. 
> 
> 
> On my RH systems, I would just do "up2date e3", and it would take care of it 
> very quickly.  Mandrake's "urpmi", on the other hand, did not work reliably 
> and eventually lost the ability even to install packages from the CD's.
>

try doing "up2date e3" it won't work because e3 is not part of rehat's 
distribution. I think there are over 8000 packages available via 
debian's apt-get.

> 
> With any of the RPM systems, the "rpmfind" tool works great, and gives you 
> automated installation of a much broader range of software.
> 

I've used them both - apt-get is much better - all the dependecies are 
taken care of for you.

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