[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Kev]

Exactly!!  My experience exactly.  Dependency hell with rpm based distros!

Kai wrote:
> Maybe I need to rephrase or explain a little further ?
>
> apt-get is awesome, Synaptec is awesome. I want to download app 1, 2, 
> 4 and 4 so select them and "hey you also need app 5, 6, 7 and 8 to use 
> this program" so we'll have them too.
>
> RPM on the other hand...need app 1, download that rpm -i app1.rpm
> failed, damn need app 2, go download appropriate version of that, 
> install, hrmm, wait, four other dependencies need resolving first, go 
> search for them but wait the other version of app 2 I installed is 
> version s x.x.4 an I needed x.x.3 to be compatible with app3, but that 
> doesn't work with app4 which requires..... blah blah
>
> Admittedly it's been a while since I really did anything with servers, 
> been focussing lots on college the last 1.5 year so my impressions may 
> need refreshing somewhat.
>
> Blake Munro wrote:
>> I might be a little biased, but I use Red hat servers at work and 
>> Debian based systems after hours, and I find the debian based package 
>> managers faaaaaaar easier to use.
>> Infact I hate yum, yast, any other package manager - i'm a pure 
>> apt-get boy.
>>
>> I find that on redhat systems there are much less packages available 
>> in total, therefore to the newbie linux user I would always suggest a 
>> debian based system (ubuntu, knoppix, mint etc)
>>
>> Blake
>>
>> 2008/8/3 Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au 
>> <mailto:meyerri at westnet.com.au>>
>>
>>
>>     Dammit I hate this ... but WTF,
>>
>>     Please explain how you equate Debian's package management to Red 
>> Hat's
>>     RPMs. (I was trying to find equivalents, but it was like 
>> comparing the
>>     manufacture of chamber pots to the mechanisms for removing the 
>> offending
>>     vessel from the royal bed-chamber). They are different things for
>>     goodness sake.
>
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