Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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I do have one annoyance with upgrading my Linux system (Fedora Core 3); if I'm upgrading, say, 100+ packages and 1/2 have unmet dependencies, neither APT/Synaptic nor YUM gracefully drop the 1/2 that can't be upgraded and continue on with the 1/2 that can be upgraded.
Instead, both UIs throw up errors and stop all updates.
To work around that, I've checked for updates, taken the list of updates, and wrote a simple dumb script to individually install each package. That way, if something can't be upgraded it won't be but the remaining will be upgraded fine.
To give you an idea how simple the script is, it only contains 1 line per package like the following;
yum -y upgrade gedit
The line above reads "run yum, answer Yes to all prompts, upgrade the package gedit". If you haven't used yum, it will handle extra dependencies for you.