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Matt Hamilton wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2007, at 18:06, Steve Roome wrote:
>
>   
>> Everyone has only limited knowledge of Linux! I remember watching some
>> fairly expereinced unix bods once trying to use fedora after getting
>> to grips with SuSE. All their swearing could be heard the other side
>> of the office anyway.
>>     
>
>
> I class myself as a pretty experienced unix user, but still even I  
> swear at redhat when trying to use it.  I guess I just don't know  
> 'the redhat way'.  On most unix systems there is some kind of package  
> repositroy somewhere and a tool to get packages from it.  But  
> whenever I use redhat I always end up having to hunt around sites all  
> over the internet to find the RPMs to install.  Is there a way to  
> configure rpm to just 'go grab what I ask and install it'?  Or is  
> that not the job of rpm?  If so, what is?
>
> -Matt (who hates being taken out of his FreeBSD pond)
>
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