Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 19:21 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Some CentOS treats such as Yum are in fact available for Ubuntu.
> 
> I don't think I've ever heard it that way round! The last few times
> I've found myself on an rpmish machine I've been crying out for dpkg
> and apt-* and the like. I'm told yum has improved quite a bit since,
> but I didn't realise it was now appreciably better than dpkg et al. Is
> there anything in particular that's particularly better? 
> 
> I had a go on Fedora not that long ago, but the smallness of the
> repositories put me off incredibly quickly, so it didn't get much of a
> fair trial.

As of a couple of years ago they had a really nice feature, where
updates install just the diffs, and not the entire package! That was
slick. It's wonderful for someone on a dialup. Ric


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
Linux user# 44256