> > ... And they use > > deb-packages - there's no yum. They guys who have to actually package up our software at work consider that an advantage. From the practical complications involved in packaging, they say deb packages are infinitely easier to understand and generate than rpms. > Fedora on the other hand encourages the use of potentially powerful > admin tools. We use polkit instead to keep track of the permissions. If only fedora would tell polkit that the answer to any question like "Can root do this?" is yes :-). (Someone posted the config file gimmick to do that and my life got much simpler, but I have no idea why it isn't the default). There are plenty of other confusing sysdamin differences. For instance, when installing NIS, you have to manually add the magic +::::: entry to /etc/passwd. There are basically no runlevels, everything is runlevel 2, and you disable gdm by disabling the gdm /etc/init.d script. No chkconfig tool (some other toll who's name I forget instead). No ifcfg-eth0 scripts, just one big "interfaces" file with all interfaces defined in the same file, etc. Then there is the "synaptic" tool, which makes all fedora gui update tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(. Since doing updates is a common operation visible to all users across all distros, I've always suspected that synaptic was the primary reason ubuntu was somewhat more popular. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
