The Ubuntu Experiment

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jul 30 15:22:28 UTC 2008


>> How about the fact that *all* software comes from the same installation
>> sources, the various DEB repos. Same for updates, once you have
>> installed anything via these repos (and I think almost everything you
>> could ever want is available from them) updates for everything, system
>> or applications, come from the same source.
> 
> That is a good point, though I don't think that many people will
> understand the importance.

Maybe. For myself, it is something I have come to value more and more 
the longer I use linux. I effectively completely abandoned windows many 
years ago. I agree though when I first set out on that path, the 
importance of this was lost on me...

Chris




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