[wellylug] RH replacement (was RH dependencies)

Phillip Rose rosewong at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 8 16:58:43 NZDT 2004


Hi Jonathan,

At 09:00 08/03/04 +1300, Jonathan Harker wrote:
>Phillip Rose wrote:
>> I've been very satisfied with RH, but am now looking for a new distro, due
>> to RH's impending withdrawl of support for end users in April. HTH.
>> 
>> --Phillip Rose
>
>Mandrake has urpmi, a very good apt-get like tool for handling RPM 
>dependencies, and unlike up2date you can choose any HTTP, FTP or rsync mirror 
>you like (though there doesn't seem to be a NZ mirror yet).

After having a fresh look at the Mandrake site, as well as others like
Suse, etc, I think I'll try Mandrake again. Their website is a lot easier
for me to navigate than RH's site. Their page on updating looks very useful:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php

>
>For a direct RH Enterprise clone, try http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

I did have a look. That's way too heavy duty for me at this point!  That's
a very good public service they're providing, though. I just hope that RH
doesn't end up finding some reason to try to stop them.

--Phillip




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