Re: [OS:N:] newbie

[Etienne Goyer <etienne goyer linuxquebec com>]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> I highly recommend Debian as a distro, since package management is a breeze.
> Others may suggest other distros.  I've heard a lot of good things
> (and some bad ;^) ) about Gentoo for example.

Hopefully I will not turn this thread into a distribution flame-fest ;), 
but I would like to point out that most (all ?) major distribution now 
come with a package manager that match (more or less) Deabian's apt 
featureset.

Fedora/RedHat -> yum (+/- up2date)
Mandrake -> urpmi
Gentoo -> emerge
SuSE -> YaST (it does package management, right ?)
etc ...

Actually, I am an happy user of apt4rpm under Fedora.  I do think, 
though, that the package management GUI of Mandrake is superior to the 
one shipped with Fedora or Synaptic.

Automatic software installation (and package management) _is_ the Linux 
killer application, IMHO.

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