[H-GEN] hey

Robert Brockway robert at blake.humbug.org.au
Thu Jun 10 01:19:19 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Paul Gearon wrote:

> For me, the biggest advantage to Debian for beginners is apt-get.  RedHat's
> RPM isn't as nice, but it has the advantage that everyone seems to provide
> .rpm files for software, while .deb files are much less common.  (I know
> there are other pros and cons, but I figure that these are the big issues
> for new users)

But thanks to alien and the FSSTND, any rpm can be made into a deb and
vice versa.  Both can be made .tgz for Slackware too :)

I have used this a few times.
Cheers,
	-Robert
 

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
                                robert.brockway at uq.net.au
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