Automatix [WAS: Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1]

[Chris Jones]

>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:49:47 +1100
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com>
Subject: Automatix [WAS: Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1]
To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
Message-ID: <200712052049.59946.sridhar at dhanapalan.com>
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Please don't recommend Automatix. It is seriously broken in design and
often 
does more harm than good. More information at 
http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html 





Sridar,

It seems that you have a major problem with Automatix.

Just because you don't like it, use it or support it, that's no reason
for me to recommend it to other users.

And that link you provided is crap!
It proves nothing more than a bloke who is simply analyzing it to the
last 0's and 1's and debunking Automatix.

If I Googled the issue, I'd find just as many sites in support of
Automatix.

In fact, a recent poll on UbuntuForums.org showed that more people
like/use Automatix than people that don't.

Well guess what Sridar, Automatix is software. And software ain't
perfect.
I bet I could find x amount of problems with the Ubuntu OS itself if I
analyzed it enough.
I'm sure any advanced geek here would know that it isn't perfect and has
many issues indeed.
But it doesn't mean I shouldn't recommend Ubuntu to other users. Why,
because (once again) software ain't perfect.

Automatix is simply a third-party application which should be used with
care. Just like ENVY, Synaptic, GParted etc. that has the ability to
tinker with valuable pieces of the OS file structure.

And Ubuntu Developers ARE NOW working in collaboration with the
Automatix Team.
Things might have been different prior to Gutsy. But that was then and
this is now.

Next time Sridar, get your facts right instead of blabbering out the
usual crap.


-- 
Chris Jones <chrisjones at comcen.com.au>