Tony Travis wrote:

I also prefer Debian-based distro's and still run the openMosix kernel under an Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server installation on our Beowulf cluster.

What I like about APT (the Debian package manager) is the dependency checking and conflict resolution capabilities of "aptitude", which is more robust than the older "apt-get". I previously ran Red Hat 5.3->9 and I've used both "up2date" and "yum". Neither of these is as capable of resolving package conflicts and dependencies as APT. I used APT for RPM when I ran RH9 for exactly this reason.

In my opinion, the package management system is a very important factor to take into account when choosing a distribution, as well as the range of tried and tested binary packages that are available. In that respect, Debian/Ubuntu has a lot to recommend it.

    Tony.
Hi,

regarding ubuntu, has anyone tried their adoption of kickstart?

Regards,

/jon
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