ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:32 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 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.
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yes...I think you misunderstood what I meant. I meant that enabling
Livna and one of the other rpmforge|dag|freshrpms|atrpms is a challenge
and not recommended.
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> >
> > 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.
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probably a bit aggressive on my part and KDE-4 does present a few
challenges  ;-)

Craig