Linux - Page 2

entwisi · 02-01-2009, 20:34

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Originally Posted by Neil

I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me

You'd rather have any old software company packaging dodgy dlls that are also used by lots of other programs with zero integration testing?

One thing about Linux package manager is that it completely manages all the shared libraries in a sensible maner. YOu also haven't got any of this "whats a decent program to do X'. Go into package manager and all programs are listed with their descriptions that is fully searchable. No messing with CD's or anything, totally up to date, properly tested, organised.

Neil · 02-01-2009, 20:46

Which is great until you find yourself on a PC without internet ability like I was.

entwisi · 02-01-2009, 22:33

so the network drivers weren't automagically installed........................

Is this your NC10 we are talking about?

Neil · 02-01-2009, 22:54

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Originally Posted by entwisi

so the network drivers weren't automagically installed........................

Is this your NC10 we are talking about?

nope a couple of IBM netvista PC's I set up at work. No net connection as they were intended to sit on an internal network we setup in the workshop as a test bed only.

andrewb · 03-01-2009, 00:04

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Originally Posted by Neil

I have been playing with Ubuntu on a couple of PC's I set up at work. The whole package manager instead of just download and install seams odd to me

I miss this part of Ubuntu massively when I'm not using it.

Sudo apt-get install program

Fantastic quick and simple way of downloading programs! Love it. Providing it's well known package they're available offline from the CD too.

Neil · 03-01-2009, 03:30

so does the apt-get method looks on the install cd?

K.S.H · 03-01-2009, 07:54

no it downloads it
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Neil · 03-01-2009, 09:00

so is it hard work without an internet connection to install software and do updates?

andrewb · 03-01-2009, 09:23

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Originally Posted by Neil

so does the apt-get method looks on the install cd?

Yes if you have it in the drive. It's the first place it looks.

entwisi · 03-01-2009, 19:52

To be more correct, it depends on what you have set up as software repositories. By default the CD is there as a final resort of Internet repositories are unavailable.

You can even create a local repository if you so desire on a local network and manage what versions are in it. If say your company has an n-1 policy for software versions then this is the easiest way of manageing it.

Neil · 04-01-2009, 09:44

This thread went a bit off topic. Here is some info on the Acer Aspire One - known as AA1.

Aspire One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
Acer Aspire One - openSUSE

If you do a bit of reading you will find out that many of these netbooks are quite poorly supported still in standard Linux distributions, unless it's just a laptop thing. Many have wifi, audio and webcam driver issues. Most of these can be worked around and if you decide to install a full blown Linux distro then there is a lot of info out there. I have been finding about my Samsung NC10 which I intend dual booting with windows XP and some flavour of Linux, probably Ubuntu as there appears to be most support for the NC10's at the moment. I can not manage without windows so it will have to stay.