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James C wrote:
> On 16/07/08 08:17, Zebee Johnstone wrote:
>> In aus.computers.linux on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:15:56 +1000
>> Bron Gondwana <brong@brong.net> wrote:
>>> It's a fecking cow due to the fact that network manager was written by
>>> ethernet/wireless bigots who wouldn't know a PPP session if it did the
>>> nasty with their dog.
>> This is an Ubuntu special I take it?
> 
> I thought Network Manager was a Gnome app.
> I don't use it because it continuously flickers busily on the panel.

I've never seen it flickering at all! And i've been using it every day 
for a couple of years now.

>> I tried Ubuntu once.  I think I lasted about a day before I decided
>> that it made things way too hard.
>> I just wanted to compile something.  Just finding the libraries I
>> needed took hours.
> 
> I find Synaptic package manager is pretty good for finding things.

So's yumex - pretty much the same, really.

>> Heaps of people bash RedHat/Fedora, and I usually figure I like it
>> because I am used to it as I've been using it since the choices were
>> that or Slack and I wanted a change from Slack.  But the more I hear
>> about Ubuntu the more I think that maybe it's not just that...
> 
> I switched from RedHat 9 to Ubuntu two years ago.  Didn't try Fedoras.
> Overall I find fewer annoyances with Ubuntu than I had with Redhat.
> But I still haven't mastered dpkg/apt enough to prefer it to RPM.

I rarely have reason to use RPM nowadays. Yum does the job much better, 
for most purposes - and deals with all the dependencies. I used 
apt/synaptic with fedora for a few years (it works with RPMs too!), but 
yum/yumex comes standard with fedora and it's just as good.



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