Re: [LI] upgrade method?

[Ravindra Jaju <jaju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello there,
> If you had debian, you could update all your packages while on the net. ;-)
> Debian has a real good utility called aot-get which detects if there are any
> latest packages and updates them as necessary. That is why I almost have the
> latest release of Debian 2.2 ( AKA potato ) and the LATEST ( I mean the latest )
> version of GIMP that is 1.1.8 . You can also update the packages on RedHat using
> RPM where you can specify which site do dowload from. ;-)

Great! I didn't know that Debian is so kewl.
Anyone for writing such apps (a generalised one!) for all distros of
Linux!? ;-) (I am not inviting .. just prodding!)

> 
> But anyway I would just like to ask you a question ??
> Why would you want RH6.0 ?? I am fine with RH5.2 and it provides me whatever
> I want !

The latest C libraries? Wouldn't it be a pain to do that manually? And
then of course, all the dependent softwares .. also the latest GNOME and
KDE (I use none of them tho').
The later versions of Apache, linuxconf etc. which most people use?

> BTW you might ask why I am upgrading ?? ( I know questions do arise ;-)
> Because Debian 2.1 came with old version of gnome ( Unstable ) . So I got the
> later one which has the latest gnome and the latest Apache Server 1.3.9 ;-)

Same thing with RedHat ...

But for people who want to live on the cutting edge, the best option is
to download the sources, compile and use them (manually).

(Why .. everyone doesn't use all the softwares .. u just need to keep tab
of those you want).

I run apache 1.3.9 with PHP4.0b2 (with Postgres, MySQL support) ... on my
RH6.0 box ;-)

> 
> Anyway no Hard feelings. Again want to reiterate that Linux is about choice.
> 

 .. and about helping.

> HAppy Linuxing....

..... to All!

--jaju

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