[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:48:02PM -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
> I'm becomming a hardcore fan of Debian, more a fan of apt-get than Debian, 
> but their stuff just works as it should.  Most distros do, but apt is the 
> "killer ap" for me.  I've been through RPM hell and don't want to go there 
> any time soon.

Unfortunately apt doesn't just work, particularly in multilib systems,
where you may have the same package installed as both x86_64 and i386.  apt
gets very confused with these types of things, but luckily people are aware
of it, and have it on their todo list.
When you do have to use Red Hat or Suse, or any other RPM based distro, yum
offers similar functionality to apt, and actually works with multilib. you
can grab it at most repos, or at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
Seth does a great job of addressing issues if you run across them.

Thanks,
Justin