Re: Which Distro? (Comparative.)
From: Unruh (unruh-spam_at_physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 11/27/05
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Date: 27 Nov 2005 22:53:16 GMT
Dan Espen <daneNO@SPAM.mk.telcordia.com> writes:
>ray <ray@zianet.com> writes:
>> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:10:58 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:
>>
>>> ray <ray@zianet.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm glad you're happy with Mandrivel. I had compared MDK 10.1 and Ubunutu
>>>> 5.04 about a year ago and was pretty pleased with Ubuntu until I had some
>>>> problems installing panotools, and didn't feel like resolving the issue
>>>> for software I was experimenting on. Had a hard disk crash a couple of
>>>> months ago and, having decided that I would indeed be using panotools, I
>>>> gave it another shot. I was able to resolve the issues this time, so
>>>> worked with it a little more. Later bought new computers for wife and
>>>> myself, and installed Ubuntu. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find out
>>>> that one can do a full upgrade by merely changing a few repository
>>>> specifications and issuing two commands. It really puts to shame the MDK
uh, under mandrake you just need one command.
urpmi --auto-select --auto
after you have changed a "few repository specifications".
>>>> upgrade path. Mainly for that reason, I'm now looking, mainly, at Debian
>>>> derivatives - primarily (k)ubuntu, elive and Debian (now comes on a DVD
>>>> with an excellent book). I don't think I'll ever go back to Mandrivel or
>>>> any other rpm based distro - at least not in the near future.
That is of course up to you.
>>>
>>> Are you sure you can't upgrade Mandriva from one release to the next
>>> with a repository change and ONE simple command?
>>>
>>> It worked for me.
>>
>> Quite possibly, but all the advice I've ever seen in regard to MDK said it
>> was much better and safer to do a clean install rather than an upgrade.
Yes, that is true of ALL distributions. ALL.
>Is that your way of saying 'sorry, I guess I was wrong and Mandriva
>doesn't deserve the abuse I gave it'?
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