Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux

From: Steve Gordon (s4054252_at_NOstudentSPAM.uq.edu.au)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:19:28 +1000

"opus" <opus@neitherland.org> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.11.09.15.03.32.822651@neitherland.org...
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:39:15 -0500, H. S. wrote:

[SNIP]

>
> Fedora uses yum or apt-get just like Debian does, so it's designed for
> users to upgrade off the internet with ease instead of buring install
> CD's and screwing with FTP like RedHat made us do. You'd have to crawl
> over hundreds of websites to get the same functionality with RedHat as you
> do with Debian. Now, with Fedora they can bring all that super software
> together in one neat archive, like Debian does, and post an officially
> tested release for Fedora! All you have to do is apt-get update then
> apt-get upgrade to stay current. No more checking out 100+ websites for
> your upgrades as it's will all be in the apt-get repository!

Well there wasn't actually any checking 100+ websites anyway, you just ran
up2date (or the autoupdate program if you knew of a redhat mirror you could
use closer to home. The difference with fedora is that it now supports yum
and apt as part of up2date so that the up2date program can get data from evn
more places.

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