Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by vurpo on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:57PM (#13346243)

I never had problems using yum. dnf has the same interface but works faster, and does more things (e.g. Copr/repository management and `whatprovides`) and better.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by jcoffland on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:35PM (#13346455)

I've found yum to be slow and prone to breaking. Part of the problem is that CentOS packages are often far behind. EPEL is a symptom of the problem more than it is a solution. Invariably, when building software which builds easily on Debian based systems, on CentOS, I end up compiling many packages from source because either they are not available or are horribly out of date.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development l... by agibsonccc on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:34AM (#13349043)

This was solved long ago: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Develo...

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