[clug] Re: Why switch to Linux?
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Fri Nov 10 05:17:12 GMT 2006
On 10 Nov 2006, at 16:07, Jason wrote:
> Too late, this is actually being introduced already in Ubuntu as of
> Edgy, its not too helpful yet but once enough people have given
> their opinion I guess it will make it a lot easier to use, ...
Last time I looked, there was no way of doing, for example "apt-cache
show-changelog xyz-package" which would give me a list of the changes
since my currently installed version - ie: a means to answer the
question, "do I really need to upgrade this package?"
I agree with the usefulness of the single-tool software update
process. In Mac OS X you end up having to open each application and
select "check for updates" manually. In Windows, you browse a billion
web sites to find updates for the software you know you've installed,
hope you got the right update, then find you got a broken one which
is six months old from some unmaintained mirror site...
Alex
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