__/ [ Larry Qualig ] on Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:14 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ Peter Köhlmann ] on Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:42 \__
>>
>> > Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:57:21 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Windows goes by the assumption (as well as idealogy) that it should
>> >>> be a stripped-down, lightweight O/S that updates its narrow trunk
>> >>> every now and
>> >>> then. Thus, it assumes that IE, OE, notepad, paint and the like are
>> >>> all
>> >>> the components one ever wishes to have updated. You cannot describe
>> >>> this as surprising because more prominent revenue streams (Office,
>> >>> premium edi-
>> >>> tions, development tools, etc.) are a form of 'enhancement' of the
>> >>> O/S,
>> >>> which in some cases was intentionally made crippled (Starter Edition,
>> >>> no spellchecker and so forth).
>> >>
>> >> You're a littie out of date. Microsoft updated Microsoft Update to now
>> >> include most of it's applications, including Office, Visual Studio,
>> >> etc.. This happened almost a year ago.
>> >>
>> >
>> > BFD
>> >
>> >> Of course it won't update their party applications, but then I wouldn't
>> >> want it to. Most vendors already include some kind of update facility.
>> >
>> > You naturally "don't want to". As it is not available. Not at any price.
>>
>>
>> Sour grapes.
>>
>>
>> > So you instead claim that it is just fine to hunt down manually all
>> > those updates. Takes far less work than in linux, I guess.
>>
>>
>> I love the way YaST handles updates. I have not used other package
>> management systems quite as much, but I wish everyone was shown a
>> demonstration of how compressive Linux updates can be.
>
>
> YaST is very good but Synaptic (Ubuntu) is even better IMO.
I only ever installed GCC, XMMS and SSH using Synaptic. I installed Ubuntu 3
times and the main upside was that I needed to visit no auxiliary resources
(Web sites), let alone use CD's that sometimes suffer from wear. Use of
broadband and centralised resources (libraries) is definitely the way
forward.
Best wishes,
Roy
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