Upgrades - updates - discuss?

[John Summerfield]

Robin Laing wrote:

> 
> The problem is many of the RHEL clones have fewer applications 
> supportted than a new version of Fedora after two years.  For a work 
> machine, not a problem.  A home machine, this is a headache, a big one. 
>  This is why I couldn't upgrade/update Fedora on my wifes machine at 
> first.  Missing applications that she uses.
> 
> I am hoping to put F8 on her machine after installing it on my desktop.
> 

Look at Scientifuc Linux, it has a few addon repos available ootb; I was 
fairly surprised to find pine got installed on request (on Nahant-clone 
)'d built it myself, so when I ran the package list I asked for it).



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