On Thursday 27 January 2005 03:19 pm, der.hans kindly wrote:
> 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?
It uses PCLOS repositories. The creator of PCLOS, Texstar, used to
clean up the bugs in the Mandrake RPM's. He created his own
repository of improved Mandrake RPM's which Mandrake users can get
with URPMI. Eventually, he just created his own distro to use his
RPM's. His upgrades are as tested and stable as anyone's can be.
>
> > All three have preconfigured sources for packages, if that helps.
>
> They're own or those from the distro they forked off?
They start with their own as the first priority in the sources list,
but you can then use Debian sources for packages that they don't
have. See my other post about safely upgrading Ubuntu...
>
> 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,
>
> der.hans
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