Star Lindows: A Real Linux Desktop Alternative to Windows
Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
Linspire As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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why everybody forget about urpmi ?
by djame on Sat 30th Aug 2003 15:02 UTC

Mandrake has it for years now (since the 8.0 or 7.2 I think) and it works like a charm......
ok, I want xine
urpmi xine
I want mplayer
urpmi mplayer

the only difficult stuff is to setup the sources access
but through http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ it's easy to just do a cut and paste......

by the way plf sites contains material stuffs mandrake is not allowed to distribute (decss, encrypted dvd player, emulator, dvd rip programm, p2p (mldonkey is the best) bref tons of really usefull apps.
and there're a lot more sources for urpmi than for apt-rpm...

so why redhat doesn't propose it ?