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From: James C
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:58

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On 16/07/08 16:28, Will Kemp wrote:
> James C wrote:
>>
>> 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.

It might be because my graphics card isn't fast enough.
Or perhaps because I have an unused ethernet card.

>> 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.

I should have said "dpkg-*/apt-*/synaptic" and "rpm/yum|up2date/yumex" 
(yumex wasn't in the last RedHat I used).

I liked RPM's fast and powerful queries (rpm -q).

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