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The Brilliance Of Linux Package Management
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| As this article rightfully points out,
| Linux package management is brilliant.
| Best of all, the process of installing or
| updating can be as simple or as complex,
| as youâd like to make it. For most
| people, updating is a matter of setting
| it and forgetting it. Others might perfer
| to do this manually from a CLI instead.
|
| However you care to slice it, todayâs
| modern Linux distros make software and
| update packages brain-dead simple. Anyone
| who still makes the claim that Linux
| relies on the user being able to compile
| stuff, is not being entirely forthcoming.
| In all of the years Iâve used Linux, I
| have had to compile a package four times.
| Each time it was for a very new driver
| module. Nothing more.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2010/10/05/the-brilliance-of-linux-package-management/
What Do Broadcom Drivers Mean for Linux Uptake?
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| The early to mid 2000s were good years
| for Linux. The influx of cash and general
| interest from major enterprise players
| like IBM, Oracle and Novell gave the
| flagship free software operating system
| an incredible boost in terms of
| popularity and
| -- more importantly -- adoption.
|
| But there was a dark side to Linux in
| those days. It was not spoken of widely,
| save for whispered mutterings in back-
| room Birds of a Feather meetings at
| LinuxWorld. It was something That Was Not
| Spoken, yet everyone who dealt with Linux
| for any length of time knew the penguin's
| dark secret.
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/linux_unix/article.php/3907571
Recent:
Do Package Managers Spoil Us?
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| Do systems break less with easier resolutions
| due to package managers? Does it mean that
| the new user of today wonât be as experienced
| as the old user of yesterday?
|
| I think it might.
|
| Users in the past had to chip away and
| reassemble with less documentation and no
| package manager. This meant that the user of
| yesterday ripped apart systems and packages
| to discover how they worked and which cogs
| fit where.
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http://linux-blog.org/do-package-managers-spoil-us/
New Ubuntu version makes software installation easy
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| One of new features of the latest version,
| Ubuntu 9.10, which might appeal to an
| average user, is the ease with which the
| software can be added and removed. Some
| users might have found this process
| difficult about Linux distributions
| generally. Ubuntu has been making
| improvements on this front over the years.
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http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article41540.ece
Ubuntu 9.10 Software Center: For better or worse
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| The latest Ubuntu release is out, being
| used, and being praised and shot down at
| all points. So far, the vast majority of my
| experiences have been outstanding. The
| hardware recognition is tops, all of the
| interfaces are slick and stable, the boot
| time is getting faster and faster, many
| sound issues have been resolved, and
| software is just as easy to install as it
| has been in the past. Or is it?
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1031
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