Introduction [OT]

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 5 04:18:16 UTC 2011


On 03/03/2011 04:36 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
>> On 3/3/2011 5:15 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>>>
>>> I admit I'm more proficient with CentOS than Fedora (which I wouldn't
>>> recommend to anyone with high blood pressure :oD), but there's always a rule
>>> of thumb to follow : be careful when mixing third party repos... and most of
>>> the times, avoid to do so. I've always been using a mix of RPMForge for
>>> applications and ELRepo for drivers, kernels and the likes.
>>>
>>> With Ubuntu, 99% of the stuff I need (cowsay, etc. --> just kidding) seems
>>> to be in the official repos already. Which is one of the reasons I've been
>>> moving to Ubuntu.
>>
>> A lot of the software provided by Ubuntu is not official. Just sayin' :P
>> If I remember right, universe is enabled by default which means you get a
>> lot of unofficial packages.
> 
> AFAIK both universe and multiverse are enabled by default. 

They are:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/add-applications/C/default-repos.html





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