Using Which Version of Linux

Rod Haper rhaper at houston.rr.com
Sat Nov 5 18:20:31 EST 2005


Dan M wrote:
> 
> Personally I would recommend staying away from Fedora unless you have a
> friend who is well-versed in it and willing to help. I like the
> distributin ok (I run it on the laptop I'm writing this from) but it uses
> RPMs for package distribution, and the rpm tools don't know how to
> automatically downloaded dependencies like yum or apt do. Because of that
> I have to say that the RPM package tools suck quite badly.

Dan,

I don't know what version of Fedora you are running but FC4 and FC3 use 
yum for updating.

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Rod



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