[lug] mandriva 10.2 limited edition 2005

[Jean. E. Adams]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:01 am, Hugh Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Michael Belanger wrote:
> > On Wed, August 31, 2005 9:09 am, Michael Hirsch said:
> > > Hugh,
> > >
> > > I'm glad you found the extra urpm site. Even though the release came on
> > > 6 CDs, it seems like there are still a few critical rpms on the net,
> > > only. I don't know why they do that--sometimes I think that they just
> > > forgot to put
> > > them on the CD.
> >
> > That was what really turned me off to debian.  I spent a week downloading
> > umpteen cd images, burned them all, and it STILL had dependency issues.
> > Debian is good -- once you do get it installed and working.  I have yet
> > to successfully get a running gentoo install -- and I really wanted it to
> > work.
> > Too bad my desire didn't just will it to work.  I imaging Gentoo, once
> > initially installed, is pretty slick.  Its a shame.
> >
> > So, sigh, I had to go back to Fedora and their brief lifecycles and their
> > vanilla i386 builds.  argh.
>
> With debian, I just downloaded the installer CD (about 100MB) and then let
> it go from there.  I like with Debian that I can just apt-get install
> <foo> when I need/want it.
>
> I think what threw me with Mandrake was that it used to be all about the
> cd and if it wasn't on the CD, you were building it from source (I haven't
> used mandrake since 5.3 can you tell? :)
>
> It looks like they are moving to a more debian-esque set up with the
> repositories being definitive and the cd's as a means of bootstrapping to
> get at the repositories.
>
> Hugh
> _______________________________________________
Mandrake has a similar system to Debian's Apt-get.    It is just as easy in 
Mdk to install/update using urpmi.    If you go to the 
http://addmedia.linuxfordummies.org/ site you can add mirrors for the urpmi 
system which makes updating and loading pre-made programs a breeze.