On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:27:38 am Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > rpm/yum is no better or worse than apt/deb. There are lots of > technical comparisons online, and they all conclude the featureset is > largely identical nowadays. > > User-visible differences are up to distro QA and the attention package > maintainers put in their packages. Well, I must say that the openness of the development/maintenance process of Debian/Ubuntu based distros pays off for many as well. Through the community there are a lot of high quality semi-officially supported packages around that Just Work (TM), and reduce the hassle of Special Solutions (TM) dramatically. Damn, didn't I say I didn't want to engage a distro war? Sorry, Guy -- Guy K. Kloss Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Te Kura Putaiao o Mohiohio me Pangarau Room 2.63, Quad Block A Building Massey University, Auckland, Albany Private Bag 102 904, North Shore Mail Centre voice: +64 9 414-0800 ext. 9585 fax: +64 9 441-8181 eMail: G.Kloss@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.massey.ac.nz/~gkloss/