Ubuntu 4.10

[Eric Dunbar]

I don't know that much about "package management" yet so I'll smile and nod.

Ubuntu has one bonus that I like: a GUI-based package manager called
synaptic (and, as a fervent Mac-user I must say quite well designed).

PS For some light reading...
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8754>
<http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407>

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:07:17 -0500, Brian McKee
<besomethingelse at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 03:08  AM, R. McFarlane wrote:
> >
> >         I had thought of installing Ubuntu but given that it can not
> > use existing package management files , that kind of puts me off. I
> > don't mind "rolling my own" (a.k.a. compiling from source) but to do
> > it for everything I want gets to be a lot of work. I much prefer yum!
>
> Can you explain your concern better to me?  Ubuntu has 'apt' which is
> often called the best of the package management systems.  Debian people
> sure think so anyway :-)   I would think it at least the equal of yum.
>   And while I haven't looked I thought the ppc packages available were
> pretty extensive... What don't I know?

Fran wrote:
> Thanks Eric, yeah, I visited the Ubuntu site several times but found no
> reference to the kernel iteration.   Which struck me as pretty odd.
> But I'll try again.

It's 2.6.something. I think GNOME is 2.8.something. The 1st URL above
details the version numbers. Right now I'm going to install WebMin
1.6.9 from the tar and see if Debian 3.1 is the same as Ubuntu 4.10 ;P
(ah well, if the install goes to pot, that's OK... that just gives me
the excuse to format the partition and try a different distro).

Eric.