Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Synaptic isn't the be all and end all of conveniece. What is needed is a front end that can actually link to the home page of the app at hand, and provide detailed package information. Maybe something a bit like an web page and this will include a little detailed package description and perhaps a little screenshot.
I find that Red-carpet has sort of the right idea, they do provide pretty verbose information, but it still lacks in that you have to know what you are looking for, which we do not always know.
Some things in synaptic are pretty complex still. I haven't used CNR, but I think it may have the right idea.
And for the guy who asked about apt and redhat, well, RH10 should have apt or yum. up2date will work with yum, but I do not know about apt, but I think it will work, do not remember. This should also reduce the load on Redhat's servers, since some packages will come from Fedora and maybe Freshrpms.
I think there is a need to be able to let users install apps in their home directories, and this should be allowable by the system administrator. I think Red-carpet provides this sort of facility, but I haven't used it, being both the admin and the user of my machine.