I recently upgraded my laptop from Fedora Core 1, to Fedora Core 4. Have been having a right good old time configuring Yum (which is supposed to be configured out of the box, but who cares). Yum stands for Yellow dog Updater Modified. It is a neat little application that allows you to find and install packages and their dependencies. It makes installing new software much simplier then before, since you don’t have to find them yourself. You can even use YUM to upgrade all of the packages (and their dependencise) already on your system. It works a lot better than Red Hat’s Up2date program (even though that uses the same underlying core). Working to get gdesklets (its like Konfabulator for linux, execpt is open source and free) working. I’ll throw up some screens when I do.
FC4 + Yum
Published: July 4, 2005Posted in: Life Sucks
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Straight up, next level bullshit. 
I use apt and its associated GUI Synaptic with FC3 and seem to get very good results, is YUM just another sort of package format? (Apt is a port of the Debian idea of the same name)