[sclug] Debian etc

[Neil Haughton]

>
>I /think/ ubuntu uses synaptic as its main installer but you could you
>apt (apt-get install pkgname, apt-cache search blah), aptitude (a more
>powerful package manager which uses apt as its backend to install
>packages), or dselect (an older powerful package manager that I find
>counterintuitive but some people love)......
>
>But yeah, ask some of the Redhat/Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, Slackware or
>Gentoo crowd why they don't run it.  I imagine some of the responses
>you'll get for Debian will be "it's old software" because Debian itself
>is well overdue a release.  Ubuntu doesn't have that problem though.
>
>  
>
Thanks, Simon.


Neil Haughton
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