[BRLTTY] friendly installs

[Hurst, Cody]

Ah, then I shall do the debian testing method. I just need to have a 
current, stable system, if possible, as I said before.
I was never really a fan of fedora myself but figured I'd ask.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net>
To: <brltty at mielke.cc>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] friendly installs


> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:12:58PM -0800, Hurst, Cody wrote:
>> how do I do this? and what about fedora?
>
> You do a clean install of Debian Etch, or alternatively you can download 
> an
> installation image of Debian Testing.
>
> Once it's basically installed, you edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change 
> the
> distribution listed in each of the configuration lines from stable to 
> testing
> (or unstable if you really want the latest - not necessarily reliable -
> packages).
>
> After that, you run
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> and answer any questions asked along the way.
>
> Fedora is a good and well maintained distribution, but it has a couple of
> particularly relevant disadvantages:
>
> 1. The collection of packages is much smaller than in Debian. Moreover,
> third-party RPM packages are reputedly often not maintained at the same 
> level
> of quality as those in the core distribution. With Debian, the package 
> quality
> is generally at a high standard, due to the Debian packaging policies and
> quality assurance procedures.
>
> 2. Live upgrades of Fedora are not officially supported - that is, you 
> have to
> boot an installation image and re-install when you want to upgrade, 
> whereas
> with Debian you can just run
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> to upgrade the distribution. BRLTTY isn't yet included on Fedora 
> installation
> disks by default.
>
> If most of the software you need is in the Fedora distribution itself 
> (rather
> than in third-party packages), then it should work well, except for the
> upgrade issue noted above. It is, as I pointed out, well maintained by
> competent developers.
>
> As to why they don't make sure that live upgrades with Yum always work 
> from
> one Fedora release to the next, I don't know.
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