[ale] Fw: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Free Linux CDs

[Matt Shade]

This post is from another list...thought someone here might be able to
answer his RPM question better than I. BTW, swinstall and patch/ix are the
tools used in HP-UX and MPE for patches and product updates.

matt shade

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gambrell" <richard-gambrell at UTC.EDU>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <HP3000-L at RAVEN.UTC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 08:21
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Free Linux CDs


> Peter Osborne wrote:
> >
> > On December 6, 2001 02:59 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > > well you picked the only one that you can't really order - As far as I
> > > know there isn't a debian based distro left, the Progeny installer is
> > > crap and I don't know if they are still shipping it.  I put Debian on
my
> > > Apple laptop and it took a week of painful work, but now that it's
> > > running it is so much better than an RPM based distro.
> >
> > Oh, and I just remembered. Libranet is based on Debian and you must buy
it,
> > no free download. Never tried it myself though. Storm & Progreny are the
only
> > 2 I tried, both have since closed shop. (I really liked Storm, it was my
> > first install, too bad)
> >
>
> OK, now you Linux guys have to explain what's so bad about RPM? From what
> I've seen sof ar, it seems like a godsend compared to swinstall and even
> patch/ix.
>



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