[ILUG] swap partition or not ?

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Gareth Eason wrote:

> RedHat (Fedora): `yum update`   (the least to type - bloody slow servers 
> though and historically problems with mirrors being in sync - AND you have to

Apt is available for RH/FC - been using it since 7.3.

> Debian: `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade`   (bit more to type, but apt 
> is pretty clever - but still you must wait for the update to complete and 
> confirm (by pressing 'Y') that you wish to upgrade the packages.)

$ man apt-get
  ...
        -y

        --yes

        --assume-yes
               Automatic yes to prompts; assume "yes" as answer to all prompts


I still think per-user optimisation flags would be really cool...

regards,
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