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Old 12-07-2007, 08:20 PM   #13 (permalink)
Zeeshan Quireshi
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Default Re: Ubuntu: Taking Over the Linux World

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Originally Posted by praka123
Suse offers kde=eyecandy better than most distros.but now pclinuxos has taken over with Mandriva+suse as root?
Personally , i use Kubuntu n PCLinuxOS , both are great eye candy and with KUbuntu's debian base , package management is a breeze

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Originally Posted by praka123
there are better ideas for eg:Autoinstall which is not adopted.
and
Conary package manager which is used by ipath and Foresight Linux.
but they dont take off well.This system only updates those specific files in packages which need to be updated, in contrast to other formats like rpm and .deb which download whole packages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_...age_manager%29
I find apt + synaptic sufficient , coz i've developed quite a proficiency in apt-get on CMD so i acn easily use it , i don't have the time(nor the zeal) to learn another package manager
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