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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> ...As a Debian user, it is normally
> safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-)
Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager.
When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities
should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking.
Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the
last few years. They built their system on top of a Debian base,
including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o(
The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal
easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of
the back end still glares through the eye candy. (Just my opinion.)
I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better!