[AuckLUG] Installing Linux

[Ken Lomax]

I had the same problems with Ubuntu. I use Fedora Core 6 on a number of
boxes and have had no trouble with installations at all. The yum command
and its GUI counterpart have solved any updates and extra software
required.

Regards
Ken

> Ravi Chemudugunta wrote:
>
>> if you want the most out of your box, I would go for ubuntu or debian.
>> ubuntu has a very large repository from which you can choose
>> applications
>> from, even the more esoteric ones like the ones I use for music
>> production.
>> there is also a large user base for ubuntu that post thousands of howtos
>> like (beryl on feisty fawn) on ubuntuforums.
>
> What rubbish! linuxpackages has a huge repository of slackware-specific
> applications. Despite (or perhaps because of) the relatively simple .tgz
> based slackware packages, dependency-related problems hardly ever arise.
>
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