Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:32, Alaa The Great wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2003 03:46:40 -0600
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too
> > many times, I made the jump...
>
> I started with debian (potato) freaked out, moved to mandrake and now
> I just moved back to debian last week, and I have to say that I miss
> it very much.
>
> I never had these RPM problems, just stick to using URPMI isntead of
> plain old rpm (urpmi is like apt-get and rpm is like dpkg) and never
> ever install rpms made for other distros, if you need packages not
> found on your CDs just add a contrib source to urpmi or compile it
> yourself, thats the trick.
>
> you won't regret using mandrake but I'll expect you to be back to
> debian sooner or later.
I never could get urpmi to work right. I was back in the 7.2-8.0
days.
Note that since apt & dpkg came 1st, urpmi & rpm are like them,
not vice versa...
Having Mdk as a first exposure to Linux was invaluable to me,
because it installed very easy, and rpm is simple, so that I
wasn't overwhelmed by apt-*.
I can't see myself ever going back...
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