Difference Between Automatix and EasyUbuntu (was Re: Newbie Wurkshop)

[Dave Sullivan]

Creating a new wiki page is as simple as going to the desired URL ( ie.
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/YourPageNameHere ) and start writing.

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 20:53 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Andrew Hunter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 16:25, David J Patrick wrote:
> >   
> >> Source-o-matic !
> >> Quite similar in function to PLFs easyurpmi, less likely to explode
> >> than Automatix and sanctioned by ubuntu. Just use we web-based
> >> sources.list generator, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-get
> >> whatever you need !
> >>
> >> http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic
> >>     
> >
> > Looks really good but it is too bad that it does not support Edgy... oh well, 
> > in time I suppose.
> >   
> 
> Yup, Source-O-Matic is one great tool, except that:
> 
> 1) It's poorly named (sounds like a CVS front end)
> 
> 2) The interface is much weaker than easyurpmi's (why force users to 
> know the country code of their nearest repo?)
> 
> 3) It's very difficult to find (buried at the Dutch site and 
> unsearchable from ubuntu.com)
> 
> 4) It doesn't support Edgy
> 
> 5) It doesn't work (The PLF repo that it offers up is the one at 
> free.fr, which has been near-unworkable for weeks. Source-O-Matic is 
> unaware of the PLF repo that *does* work, at freecontrib.org.)
> 
> And this method is sanctioned by Ubuntu? :-P
> 
> Still, it is a step on the right direction. If people could find it and 
> it was kept current.
> 
> (Actually, right now I think almost all that's necessary is documented 
> at http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf -- just a pointer there from 
> ubuntu.com could go a long way.)
> 
> - Evan
> 
> PS: Under the realm of putting my money where my mouth is -- if I want 
> to create/maintain a new page on the Ubuntu Wiki to explain things the 
> way (I think that) new users need to understand it, who do I talk to? 
> Given the nature of the subject, it would need to be a new page rather 
> than a revision of an existing one. Existing pages are useful and 
> necessary but don't do much for the big picture.
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Dave Sullivan
dave at dave-sullivan.com
www.dave-sullivan.com
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