I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've been off playing with Debian
Sarge for a couple of days and although there are a number of things I prefer
about MDK, I must say that I was completely seduced by Apt, along with the
GUI, Synaptic. Much better than urpmi and MDK's GUI tools.
Typing apt-get update and apt-get upgrade without any of the issues of MDK was
just great.
Being able to browse through 13,000 programs/files I could install was also
amazing.
But, installing and updating them was just too smooth for words.
apt-get install openoffice telling me I had it installed and then upgrading to
the newest version was great.
But, it was installing Firefox and Superkaramba via apt-get install
superkaramba (nothing more) was too sweet for words. On MDK, both were a
pain for different reasons.
MDK clearly still has a much better install process (Debian's new installer
still has lots of room to grow). MDK also has much cleaner config tools
through the Control Centre.
Add in something like Up2date like Fedora (MDK seems to be moving in that
direction) and Apt to find and install and update open source programs
outside of MDK and MDK would be perfect.
As an aside, it's nice to be able to actually compare these distros and see
strengths and weaknesses, between them. I could never do that with XP.
Rory
On Sunday 25 April 2004 8:57 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it
working.
It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't.
Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then
disappeared. If so, where is the repository, please?
Even if it does work, there may be no packages from it, which are not
available from the urpmi sources. I though it was worth looking at, though.
Many thanks
Keith
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