[Tfug] From APT to RPM?

[Jim March]

On 2/3/07, Tim Ottinger <tottinge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that all goes without saying.  Hence the surprise that Jim went
> the
> other way.
> Temporarily.  I hear that there are some new uberpackagemanager programs
> that
> make it pretty tolerable to live in that R-land, and I was half hoping to
> hear that he
> had something much better than either Yum or Apt-Rpm going.
>
> But I get his reasons.
>
> Tim



Daily stability of my system and DATA comes first and foremost.  I could
have lived with OpenSuse on that basis.  Ubuntu, not so much.

It was only with considerable trepidation that I jumped to Fedora.  And yes,
I *do* want to jump back to the Debian/apt family, unless Fedora 7 turns out
to be one hell of an improvement...

I strongly considered starting with Debian Stable in the current version and
hand-tune it to all the latest desktop stuff.  But I don't think I could
support that easily for clients in a small-scale Linux conversion sideline
biz.  Turns out I can't see supporting FC6 in that environment either so,
I'm really looking to distro-hop yet again.  Debian Stable 4.0 and Feisty
are among the two best contenders I can think of near-term...but it's NOT
because of issues with yum, rather it's total system stability and how
well-tested the auto-updates pushed to the desktop are.

Jim