UITN: Ubuntu's Missing Batteries

[Phillip Pare]

If you are at a South African University and you have deliberately 
pointed your sources.list file to your local on-campus repositories, you 
   will be surprised to see that Automatix reenables all the off campus 
repositories and thereby potentially plays havoc with your bandwidth 
allocation. It does store your old sources.list under a different name, 
so you can re-enable it afterwords.

Does anybody know how to get hold of the source to Automatix, because 
the basic idea behind it is very good?

A development would be to get it to fetch software off a more complete 
set of repositories stored on a 4.7 Giga byte DVD.

Some guys are moaning about security issues in automatix and I see that 
Arnieboy, automatix's creator, has responded in a somewhat angry manner 
at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122797.

Phillip


john levin wrote:
> Ubuntu's Missing Batteries
> Automatix makes supercharging Ubuntu Linux as easy as point and click.
> 
> On the automated way of installing mp3 codecs and other license-limiting 
> software.
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124519,00.asp
> 
> John
> 
>