[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Sun Aug 3 21:29:35 WST 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 21:05 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:37 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:02 +0800, Kai wrote:
> > > Maybe I need to rephrase or explain a little further ?
> > > 
> ...
> > No it's the package MANAGER rather than the package - Yast, Yum, Smart,
> > Synaptic etc use info in the packages to decide EXACTLY what to install
> 
> I agree - even debian use tools built on top of basic apt utilities to
> do the job.  Same with rpm - up2date/yum/... and others just use rpm
> underneath. 
> 
> Ive seen enough dead and misbehaving debian systems to know that they
> are just as much trouble as rpm based ones.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
Thank you, Bill. I realise it's not often I get sanity from someone who
works at a Uni .... ;-)

Thanks anyway --- BTW what happened to the lady who more-or-less ran
this LUG in about 2004? She started her own Linux site ...

 
-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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