Am 27. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so:

> There have been concerns about using Mepis, Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS for
> the InstallFest, because of not being sure how to upgrade them
> without breaking.
>
> I know PCLOS uses URPMI and is safe to update, upgrade and get new
> packages without breaking. It's a faster, lighter, bug-fixed
> Mandrake, if you will. I think it's far superior to Mandrake and
> probably the most newbie-friendly of the three live-cd, installable
> derivatives.

Does it upgrade from its own repository or from Mandrake?

> All three have preconfigured sources for packages, if that helps.

They're own or those from the distro they forked off?

Knoppix can upgrade to current debian, but I don't suggest it. Same was
possible for stormix, progeny, etc. Progeny at least provided a path for
updating to run off debian repositories. Stormix might have as well.

> I posted the following question about SimplyMepis and Ubuntu at
> linuxquestions.org, and got the following answer:
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Q. How do I update/upgrade Ubuntu and SimplyMepis?
>
> My LUG is considering using Ubuntu and SimplyMepis for our
> InstallFests because they're so easy to install and use, and are
> based on Debian.
>
>  Question 1: Do they update/upgrade well, or do they break if you try
> to update them (a la Knoppix)?
>
>  Question 2: What repositories do they use for future updating and
> upgrading? Do they use the standard Debian repositories, or do they
> need special repositories? I've looked through their user forums and
> can't find the answer to this.
>
> A. update is simply updating apt-get packages.
>  upgrade in mepis will upgrade to debain system.
>  ubuntu has its own packages but can use debain packages.
>  these debain based systems are have been pre configured to make
> debain easy to install for noobs.
>  I would sugest that wait till the distro releases a upgrade both of
> these do at least twice a year.

Updating only twice a year is probably an adavantage. Do they do security
releases as holes are found and fixed?

>  upgrading individual packages is no problem.
>  hope this helps.

It's getting us closer :).

danke,

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