ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

[Josh Coffman]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> Livna and rpmforge/dag/freshrpms/atrpms seem to conflict and for the
> casual user, livna should be enough and easy enough to manage. Enabling
> Livna and any of these 'others' is a challenge, not for the faint
> hearted.

Actually, I remember it being fairly straight forward... maybe it was
livna, but some repo even provided an rpm to enable it.

>
> Presently, I am using just livna and adobe repositories (and obviously
> the fedora repositories)...things work well. I actually upgrade from
> Fedora 7 to Fedora 8, removed the freshrpms packages and then used the
> new 'preupgrade' package to upgrade to Fedora 9 and it worked great.

I take it as a vote of confidence that you were willing to upgrade to
F9 so soon.. I recall you telling me you lagged a version on purpose.

>
> Craig
>