thanks fedora
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue Sep 21 08:21:25 UTC 2010
Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:56 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> Huh? yum is multiarch capable and apt is, well, floundering on that
>> score at the moment. Nevermind the fact that dpkg don't check support
>> per file md5 checksums yet of which rpm does.
>>
>> The server of two other schools were recently abused by some botnet
>> kiddie and had they been Ubuntu servers, I daresay it would have been a
>> real horror to verify what was compromised and was not. I just ran rpm
>> -Va and voila! I know certain important binaries were not compromised.
>>
>> Becoming an apt fanboi based on ancient obsolete reasons ain't good for you.
>
> I know one thing, when I switched I was floored by how much apt is
> faster than yum. I don't see the dissension among repos either, like
> Fedora is plagued with. Nor the "we don't do Sun" attitude. Jus my
> two-cents worth. Ric
>
>
It is to apt/deb/dpkg's advantage that it does not make use of hideous
db4 files.
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