Installation of Fedora over SuSE

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On March 6, 2005 10:57, Jason Shein wrote:
> Well I have totally moved away from any RPM based distros. In the past I
> have used Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE and many others.
>
> Linux is advancing at a staggering rate. This means that new versions of
> your favorite distro are becoming available every 6-9 months. Unfortunately
> there is no painless, failsafe upgrade procedure for Mandrake, Fedora, or
> SuSE. If you read any of their forums you will find in every one, that the
> upgrade procedure available on the new cd's is never recommended, for
> various reasons.
>
> By using Debian or Gentoo based distros, you are constantly updating your
> machine to the newest features, enhancements and bugfixes.
>
> Debian "unstable" is just as stable as any RPM based distro. Apt-get is a
> fantastic method of managing your packages.

Going from MDK 10.0 to 10.1 involved pointing my machine at the 10.1 
repositories and then doing urpmi --auto-select, no reinstallation necessary. 
It works at least as well as apt-get.
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