Monday, June 8, 2009

Re: [BLUG] Apt-get vs Aptitude

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Mark Warner wrote:

> My first successful installs of Linux were Breezy and MEPIS
> 3.3-1, both Debian based, and both using apt/Synaptic. To this
> day, I still can't get comfortable with any desktop distro that
> isn't Debian based. The only exception is PCLinuxOS, but that's
> because it uses apt-for-rpm.

Anybody know whether the Debian family of distros is
taking any interest in PackageKit? Fedora clearly has great hopes
for it, and iirc it's meant to be OS-agnostic.

http://www.packagekit.org/

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