WARTY review

[Michel Klijmij]

Barry Walker (baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk) wrote on Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:23:27 +0000:
> Did any of you read the review of Warty in Linuxformat magazine this 
> month? They only give it 8 out of 10. I really don't understand that as 
> Ubuntu is the ONLY linux I've installed that found all my hardware and 
> configured it ok.

*Only* 8 out of 10? Maybe it's because I'm a lazy student but that looks 
quite good. 10 out of 10 is impossible because the perfect OS doesn't 
exist (despite Linux being able to get customized to pretty much 
anyone), so it lacks 1 point. That's pretty good IMO. 
 
> And how much better is apt and synaptic to get and install software 
> that what Suse or Mandrake use?

Not better, not worse. I like synaptic, but to be honest Mandrake's 
urmpi and SuSE's yast are good as well. And don't forget yum, up2date, 
etc etc. Yum has the disadvantage of not having a graphical front-end 
(though there is yumgui from Cobind now), and I don't like yast on the 
command line (a whole ncurses interface is a bit overkill, but perhaps 
this can be turned off, don't know yet).

In other words, most package managers are good, so that's not what makes 
Ubuntu more or less special than others.

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