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March 20th, 2007, 02:28 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
I believe Ubuntu uses Debian's apt, so technically those aren't separate items when discussing the package managers. That's my understanding anyway.
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March 20th, 2007, 07:37 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
I believe that Ubuntu has its own package repositories.
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March 21st, 2007, 01:33 AM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
I'm lost, what are we arguing about? Package managers and package repositories are related to each other (both having to do with software packages) but aren't the same thing. Both Debian and Ubuntu use apt as the package manager and both have their own repositories.
I'm not sure about apt being a fundamental or core package manager though. Wouldn't dpkg be the core package manager for Debian based distros?
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March 21st, 2007, 01:45 AM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
I wasn't aware that we were arguing; I thought we were just answering BM's questions?
apt, dpkg, whatever. I was just thinking in terms of aptitude and synaptics building off of apt.
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March 21st, 2007, 02:25 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
FWIW, my techie girlfriend recommended Ubuntu over Suse when I mentioned an interest in trying Linux. She didn't really elaborate on what she disliked about Suse; I got the impression that she mostly disliked the attitude of the people who put together the Suse distribution.
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March 21st, 2007, 07:59 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Heh...
Yes, Ubuntu is the 'vogue' right now because it's so much easier to install and use than many other distributions. But I am a techie myself, if a bit out of practice, and I want the extra widgets that come with the older distributions. Like source code. I'd probably go for Debian if it weren't so huge and covered so many CDs. I'll be trying to recompile Seamonkey with some advanced instructions (MMX for example) at the very least. Probably will go for a kernel recompile, too -- After I gain some confidence with the system.
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March 21st, 2007, 11:47 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Ubuntu has all you need to compile seamonkey in the build-essential meta package though there isn't packages for seamonkey itself yet (you have to grab the source from mozilla.org for now). Its going to be hard to find a distribution that won't let you build and use a custom kernel though I'm not sure why you want to.  |
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