OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19404/Bringing_Debian_APT_to_the_iPhone Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:24:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com screenshots http://osnews.com/thread?302932 http://osnews.com/thread?302932 here are some screenshots concerning the GUI part:
http://www.marc-seeger.de/2008/02/opensource-installerapp-pendan.ht... Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rb2k) Comments RE: screenshots http://osnews.com/thread?302985 http://osnews.com/thread?302985 very interesting. Makes me want to buy an iphone. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments APT ? http://osnews.com/thread?302989 http://osnews.com/thread?302989 It seems that some person does not know what means APT and should want to understand the article ;)
Please enlight me ? Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sandorfal) Comments RE: APT ? http://osnews.com/thread?302992 http://osnews.com/thread?302992 apt is the Advanced Package Manager.

It's a tool to easily install software on debian/ubuntu and others. Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments already done...other way http://osnews.com/thread?303066 http://osnews.com/thread?303066 OS X already got native ports system: http://darwinports.com/
What's the difference with APT?

Remember: If it does the same, open source is always better than closed source ;)

Since when BSD is closed source? This is clean Microsoft alike FUD from linux camp again.Edited 2008-03-01 14:18 UTC Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antik) Comments RE: already done...other way http://osnews.com/thread?303069 http://osnews.com/thread?303069
Since when BSD is closed source? This is clean Microsoft alike FUD from linux camp again.


Antik,

Please. Try to avoid being so sensitive. Not everything which happens to relate to both Linux and BSD is an attack by Linux users upon BSD. And no one is claiming that BSD is not open source. I think that if you'll just stop being so defensive, you'll find that you and *BSD have friends you didn't realize you had. But when you are frequently making accusations of FUD, and attacking everything you encounter which involves Linux, it's hard for people to feel very friendly.

-Steve Bergman Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE: APT ? http://osnews.com/thread?303070 http://osnews.com/thread?303070 APT = Advanced Package Tool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool

apt-get is the command-line front end to this tool.

Apt was developed for Debian and is used by Debian and Debian-derived distributions. It has also been used in some other places, such as part of fink, a mechanism for installing typical *nix apps on MacOSX.

While some may dispute my claim, I hold that apt is the best package installer to be found. It is without question in the highest echelon of package manaegers. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE: APT ? http://osnews.com/thread?303167 http://osnews.com/thread?303167 APT, is a system for managing Software Packages.

Software packages, as distributed under say Ubuntu linux (based on Debian linux) are binary packages (they are already compiled into standard executables) unlike the port management tools such as is available currently for OS X.

Because software packages are pre-compiled against a set of libraries, the APT has to be super snazzy smart and be able to work out all the library dependencies and manage them. It is *very* slick. If you have some libraries but not the others, when you use APT to install a program it will also install the missing libraries and any others that need updating to the newer version that the package was compiled with.

In the reverse process, when you remove a package, the APT system can also check the libraries in your system and if something is not required it will remove and clean up your system as well.

As I have said, very slick.

Work has forced me to use Dell laptops, but this meant I forced it to run Ubuntu Linux. This underlying APT system with the graphical software update program and synaptec package manager makes Ubuntu scary easy to update and add to and really is the best competition to the Mac way OS X gives us.

I have tried other Linux distros and find the whole Ubuntu polish on the underlying package management system to be the best.

I have tried Desktop BSD and PC BSD and they are so far behind Ubuntu in a "Just works" or "Don't crash out on inability to handle dependency libraries" that they look very primitive from the end user standpoint.

I have also tried Fink and Darwin Ports on OS X and they fit a need but also are no where near the polish and level of an Ubuntu APT package management system.

Imagine Darwin Ports where repositories hold pre-compiled binaries of all the ports available for all the OS versions and all the processors and the end user doesn't need to know anything about the back end.

They simply type:

apt-get install someprogram

and someprogram gets installed correctly, works right away, and in only the time to download the file, not download source, and then compile and sometimes crash-out during the compile process with arcane errors the end use has to try and solve. (which most can not or simply won't.) Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Old IT Guy) Comments pill http://osnews.com/thread?303242 http://osnews.com/thread?303242 BUY PHENTERMINE
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