I think time will tell how well and if YUM or APT-RPM will make it there. up2date, while a big improvement on ... uh ... nothing, would often choke if I had done any "non-standard" installations and claim that package this or that needed to be removed when I couldn't even find it. These things are often a matter of habit. I got used to rpm. Strangely, there's a little lurking thingie that goes off when looking at Debian -- sort of like "it's too easy. It must not be taking something into account." I don't want to encourage divisions here. Since I wouldn't like to see there to be the One True Linux, I think we'll probably be looking at Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, and Debian and (throw in some other favorites.) I find that people wind up comfortable and competent in the distro they've used most. On Thursday, Nov 6, 2003, at 18:49 US/Eastern, Nox wrote: > Am am very familiar with APT-RPM, as well as URPMI, as well as up2date, > My security consulting firm uses RH for many services, > so I have become used to it. > > But it just doesn't stack up, for me at least, > it has never performed as well as my Deb box. > > Also for Drake, their package manager, > which uses URPMI source style listing, is a pain. > Often I have to alter whats on mandrakeClub, to receive the hdlist > properly > > Forgive me, I will never side with anything over Deb, > and it tends to get me going (Since 1995) > > Nox > GenMicro Systems > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:44, Tim Cutts wrote: >> On 04-Nov-03, Nox wrote: >>> Glad we stuck with debian. >>> The intent when we began with deb was to develop >>> a Cluster specific deb version, which we are still working on. >>> (Not just FAI but fully optimized) >>> >>> I would love to know if anyone plans on testing out that >>> MandrakeClustering, and if you could post your findings. >>> >>> I just switched from woody to drake 9.2 on my desktop, >>> and am very happy so far with it. (Although I miss apt-get) >> >> You need miss it no more. APT has been ported to RPM-based >> distributions. We've tested it on Red Hat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0, and it >> works well. Google for APT-RPM and you'll find it. >> >> Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > ======================================================== Matthew Temple Tel: 617/632-2597 Director, Research Computing Fax: 617/632-4012 Dana-Farber Cancer Inst mht@research.dfci.harvard.edu 44 Binney Street, M L105 http://research.dfci.harvard.edu Boston, MA 02115 Choice is the Choice!