WARTY review

[Michael McCabe]

Package management does make Ubuntu a bit better than most distros.
Almost everything that I've ever needed had been in the Universe
Repository and there is no need to download a SRPM and rebuild it.  And
I've found apt much faster at basic tasks like searching than most other
package managers.  Including Yum and Portage.

Mike
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:20 +0100, Michel Klijmij wrote:
> 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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