Best Package manager

duerra · 12-23-2003, 04:30 PM

Laugh at me if you like but Windows Update is a damn pretty thing. Yeah, if you are updating the Windows core you will have to reboot, but you'd have to reboot if you were updating the Linux kernel, too, so that's essentially the same. But the best thing I like is that you can set Windows update to get your critical updates automatically, then install them at your will.

contrasutra · 12-23-2003, 05:12 PM

"Core" is different than kernel.

You have to reboot basically every Windows Update, and w/ linux, you only have to update maybe once every 3 months.

duerra · 12-23-2003, 05:34 PM

Yes, but Windows is only downloading those updates about once every three months, too. I haven't gotten a Windows Update download for XP in quite a while. That doesn't make it any less of a good thing. And the last one I did get, I didn't have to reboot.

shadowhunter · 12-24-2003, 06:07 AM

I don't update my kernel. The new 2.6.0 has all my laptop needs. I am running 2.2 on my desktop...

I didn't have to reboot for a long time

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scheidel21 · 12-24-2003, 12:06 PM

It's interesting to see all the different package managers I wasn't aware of as well as to see how ferociously people like their package managers or lack there of in some cases.

--Alex

DAChristen29 · 01-07-2004, 02:12 PM

no questions here. debian's apt is the best (although i use suse). what is gentoo's package manager?

scheidel21 · 01-07-2004, 02:58 PM

partagee is the package manager for gentoo, at least I understand it to be from previous posts. What I do know for sure is that gentoo's package manager installs source file then compiles then for optimum performance on your computer.

--Alex

DAChristen29 · 01-07-2004, 04:54 PM

hmmm. sounds good. so if i wanted to get into gentoo, how would i do that, since everything has to be built from source. i'd like a gentoo system.

scheidel21 · 01-08-2004, 06:49 AM

Well go to linux.org, and check out the distro page they have a link to gentoo's site from there download the install CD and be on your merry way

scheidel21 · 01-08-2004, 06:51 AM

one more thing I have been told gentoo can take a long time to install due to all the compiling needed, so call out of work and get comfy

shadowhunter · 01-08-2004, 09:35 AM

You can use gentoo grp, precompiled for your arch., or compile it the way you want. it is really easy to use...
although it isn't faster than debian (check some benchs somewhere on the net) it is a good distro.
If you want speed, don't take gentoo. But if you want a nice system and a very up to date distro, gentoo is yours. (it has some probs with process management, but it will become a very mature distro over time, no doubt.)

Geert.