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Tony Langdon <tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:

:  ro> FIPS is stable and free, and does the job nicely.  It is on  pretty
:  ro> much every Linux cd under dos utils now.  Recent versions of fips
:  ro> handle vfat.

: PM is a bit more versatile, but FIPS does the job, and is often supplied
: with Linux. :-)  BTW, does FIPS handle FAT32 yet?  That would complete
: it. :-)

I thought PM was commerical s/w.  Cool to hear it is being included with
Linux distributions.  Noy sure if FIPS handles FAT32 yet, but I'd say it
can't be long.

:  ro> I've tried Slackware, Rh and Debian in that order and prefer Debian
:  ro> for a number of reasons.  The 'on the fly' ungrades using dselect from
:  ro> an ftp site or Cd are nice.  someone said RH might have a similar
:  ro> feature now, but I'm not sure.

: RH has RPM which sounds interesting.  I'm about to do some new RH
: installs, so I'll let you know in a month or so. :-)

The problem with rpm is that it doesn't like doing on the fly upgrades.
You are supposed to drop to single user mode to upgrade rpm packages.
RPM will break your systemif u try on the fly upgrades of some important
packages, like say RPM.  These comments are valid in RedHat 4.1 the
last one i used, and RPM might be better now (as I mentiond before, I have
heard a rumour that RH are making a package to allow on the fly upgrades).

:  ro> Yep, and in local user groups (face to face communication makes it
:  ro> easier to solve alot of problems).

: True.  I find the Net the most convenient. :-)

Very true indeed :-)
Cheers,
	-Robert

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