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Intersting series of articles on the Register
24-06-2010 2:24 PM
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Quote The biggie is installing software.
Windows is just an OS, developed by one big team. The apps come separately, from third parties, so you have to go to them to get the software and future updates.
Linux is different: you get the OS, apps, drivers, media codecs and so on all from your distributor, who has assembled them all into a single, more-or-less integrated whole. So to add more software, and to get updates, you go to the distro-maintainer, not to the original source.
Because everything comes from one place, there's a single central package-management tool which you use for just about everything: installing, removing and upgrading the whole system. The main reason we're recommending Ubuntu is because its tool, APT, is the best, and stomps all over the rival RPM system used by Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE and their relatives. It makes Control Panel | Add and Remove Programs look like a sharpened rock tied to a stick.
Love that quote "It makes Control Panel | Add and Remove Programs look like a sharpened rock tied to a stick"
The first was choosing your distro then installing it.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
24-06-2010 3:22 PM
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24-06-2010 3:49 PM
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I am more familiar with apt so know only the basics of using yum (yum install/yum update etc)
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
24-06-2010 3:51 PM
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25-06-2010 2:10 PM
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Have to agree with article. except that I don't know what Yum and RPM are so perhaps my opinion is not really relevant.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
25-06-2010 5:16 PM
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I have not really bothered looking at the new "Ubuntu Software Centre" as I believe it is a subset of the "Synaptic Package Manager".
On my headless Ubuntu servers, I regularly use the APT family of commands for installation and updates.
I have used RPM for those applications that the package manager does not already contain.
Never used YUM, so no comment.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
26-06-2010 12:28 AM
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The primary benefit of the new "Ubuntu Software Centre" is that the packages are divided (and sub-divided) by type.
So if you only want Games and RPG ones at that, then this is for you.
The software centre says it has 32,380 "items" available.
Standard Ubuntu is only about 30,276 packages.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
27-06-2010 2:46 PM
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Synaptic is a whole lot easier.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
17-07-2010 9:22 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim As a non Linux user can I ask if the other users agree with the comparison between Ubuntu with APT and the others with RPM
Back in Ye Olden Days APT was probably the deciding factor in choosing Debian as a distro; back then Debian had a reputation for being difficult to install & configure but, with APT, by far the easiest to keep up-to-date and upgrade from one release to the next.
The only RPM-based distro I've used in recent years was a SuSE system in my previous job, but that was strictly as an end-user; no experience of whatever it used for package management.
Odd thing about the first Reg article - it recommends Mandriva-based PCLinuxOS over Mandriva itself.
Mandriva was formed from the merger of Mandrake & Connectiva.
Connectiva developed apt4rpm some years ago.
PCLinuxOS is an example of an RPM-based distro which uses APT for package management....
IIRC Slackware, which is neither .deb nor .rpm based also has slapt-get as an option for package management.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
18-07-2010 2:21 AM
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it helps that a distro is maintained and packages compiled specifically to work properly with the whole system. it makes updating a breeze and gives the user confidence.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
26-07-2010 3:44 PM
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26-07-2010 3:54 PM
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My experience mirrors your own and haven't had any problems so far.
Re: Intersting series of articles on the Register
01-08-2010 5:03 PM
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They both do the same job, so doesn't really matter which one you use, you'll always get what you need/want as long as you add the correct source repo.
YUM users should be adding the "DAG" repo, as this pretty much has everything you need.
and for apt, the default debian ones should get your sorted. Apart from if you have nvidia
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