On 9/4/05, Chen Xiao Fan <xiaofan@sg.pepperl-fuchs.com> wrote:
> Broadband is important to run Windows and Linux now!
> It seems that my Ubuntu box needs more update than
> Windows. Perhaps I installed too many non-essentail
> packages. However I prefer to install more than less.

Remember, Windows is only an operating system.  Ubuntu is updating
both the OS and most of your applications.

> Another thing is that for new users, I think it is
> better to use latest Linux distribution. My linux
> experimentation restarted this year with Ubuntu 5.04.
> It is quite a nice distribution. I suggest you install
> Debian Sarge or Ubuntu. Perhaps your Debian is really
> old. For experienced Linux user or server user, maybe
> it is okay or better to use older system.

For almost everyone, the new stuff is better.

> I installed Fedora Core 3 installed on my notebook and I
> was having the same situation as you (600M of updates).
> I then switched to Fedora Core 4 and things is much better.
> Still I have not boot into FC4 enough times to make a
> judgement.

Fedora is kind of a special case because it is Red Hat's testing
ground for new stuff.  I just set a cron job to update it when I
sleep.

> I do not like RPMs in general. However I
> find Debian package to be more and more like RPMs.

.debs are more or less equivalent to rpms.

( By the way, Xiaofan, I got "Four bytes at once" mode working with
the Pickit 2.  It programs a 3700 word program into a 16F688 in less
than 5 seconds... Just have to get the EEPROM working and I'll make a
release.)

Regards,
Mark
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