By all means, Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Ltd. have made a spectacular arrival on the Linux scene lately. The combination is like a dream come true for many, many Linux aficionados: tightly selected bleeding edge packages to focus the distribution on a single CD, corporate backing, 18 month support, that all sounds like a formidable package.
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@christian, fedora is not all rpm-based distributions. If you run Mandrake you need three repositories to get practically every MDK package available: main, contrib, plf. For SuSE I believe the situation is similar with YaST, but I haven't run it since 7.x so I don't know the details.
@christian, fedora is not all rpm-based distributions. If you run Mandrake you need three repositories to get practically every MDK package available: main, contrib, plf. For SuSE I believe the situation is similar with YaST, but I haven't run it since 7.x so I don't know the details.