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I wonder if the author has had anyone extol the virtues of Ubuntu at him yet... Not to sound fanboyish, but Ubuntu's package manager (Synaptic) more or less mee

I wonder if the author has had anyone extol the virtues of Ubuntu at him yet... Not to sound fanboyish, but Ubuntu's package manager (Synaptic) more or less meets a lot of hit requirements. The best part is that all of the updates are coming through the same source, so you don't have to hunt down the updater in every single piece of software you install. Of course, I say Ubuntu because that's what I know. I would not be the least bit surprised if other linux distros/mac os had similar package managers. It seems like even windows could form some kind of agreement with various software vendors allowing them to push updates through the windows updater. Opt-in of course.

graemep 18y ago
All versions of Linux I know of have a similar package manager. Updates on the server and some more geeky distros tend to be run on the command line. Some offer granularity of what types of updates to do (Mint classifies updates by riskiness to stability) and most offer some method of holding back updates on some packages (although not in the GUI in the distros I have used).
- fatjonny 18y ago
  Things might be slowly getting better for Windows. Omaha http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ http://code.google.com/p/omaha/ was released under an open source license recently. It will be interesting to see if other projects adopt it, or if it remains being used by Google products only. Ars Technica had a good summary about the current state of Omaha. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/google-opens-source-code-for-software-updater.ars http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/google-opens...