[CS-FSLUG] Nathan

[Chris Brault]

Well Mister Nathan,

> I tried to get synaptic to work but for some reason
> the search feature 
> wouldn't work and its response time to gui events
> was very delayed.

It works great if you get the latest version from
freshrpms.net.  The reason it is slow is because it
does the dependency checking on the fly, which is one
reason why I like it.
 
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> >I write my own config tools. Why? Because it is fun
> to
> >program on Linux.
>
> I would too but most of what I would write already
> exists, why re-invent the wheel?
 
You don't reinvent the wheel, you build a better
mousetrap.  While you are building it, you improve on
the standard design and also learn everything you ever
wanted to know about adminning Linux.  What a deal!
 
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> What surprises me is that Mandrake's 
> control center is most likely either GPLed or LGPLed
> as is SUSE's YaST now but few distributions have 
> either unless derived off Mandrake or SUSE in the 
> first place, the same goes for Ark's mission control

> which is only found in one other distribution that I

> know of and Fedora's tools are as far as I know only

> in Fedora And Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The tools have different theories behind them.
SuSE and Mandrake and Ark are trying to go for user
friendliness (i.e. dumb corprate users).  Fedora and
Redhat have gone for modularity, one tool to do one
job well.  Just like me :))



	
		
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