Re: [tlug] newbie notebook question

[Wayne <rondonko@example.com>]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 13:51 +0900, Patrick wrote:
> This may start a flame war (bring it on), but i want to be the first
> to
> advise you to stay well away from rpm based distros, they are a
> nightmare imho, .... you can always tell an rpm based distro because
> you
> have to download at least 3 disks to install one, and they are
> impossible to upgrade.  

No flame war :-) but Mandrake's 'urpmi' command makes installing
RPMs as easy as picking a bogey! :-) Once you have set up a few
software sources just issue the command:

urpmi filename

it gets installed and all dependencies are taken care of.

Issue

urpmi --auto-select

and your system gets updated with all the latest fixes, etc.

Granted, it is best to install a new version rather than try to
upgrade to the latest and greatest but that gives me the chance
to redo/resize my partitions :-) 

I was thinking of installing Ubuntu (tried it on my old Thinkpad)
but it seemed really slow compared with Mandrake, Redhate's Fedora
Core 3 and even the Ubuntu live CD! I also seem to remember not
being asked to setup a ROOT password.

Oh, and I didn't have to download the 3 CDs for Mandrake, just a
boot CD and I did an FTP install.

Wayne