From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-084.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.84] helo=concerto.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CQ1Mh-0006cl-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 05:30:44 -0500 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA5ATrIJ006817 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 05:29:53 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iA5ATrQE006816 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 5 Nov 2004 05:29:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 05:29:53 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20041105102952.GD4128@rednote.net> References: <20041104032753.GF4274@rednote.net> <20041104075333.GA2825@bruzos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041104075333.GA2825@bruzos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.9-1.667spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: abcde for fedora? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:30:49 -0000 Yum is my current favorite. It's rather yummy. I do still keep an apt on my system, but only because the Planet CCRMA repository is not yet yumable. David Bruzos writes: > Hi: > Fedora comes with a package manager called "yum" which provides similar functionality to "apt". I like yum very very > much. It is simple to use and very powerful. There are many yum rpm databases on the net too. Most software > you would ever need you can get by typing: > # yum install package1 package2 package3 ... > > The only disadvantage of "yum" is that it is much slower than "apt", because it is written in python. However, it does > not really matter, because the handling of RPMS is performed by the "rpm" program, which runs at full speed... You > might just see that it takes a long time to find dependencies and stuff like that. I use it > on a 300 MHZ machine without any problems, so most people should not have problems either. > > David Bruzos >