Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 03:40:25 EST 2010


On 03/02/2010 10:33, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
> "In Ubuntu, you don't do anything - the OS checks for updates and prompts the
> user as needed, an experience very much like OS X."
>
> Yes, of course standard Debian has an update manager which pops up, if you
> want it to work that way.  That's how you will get it out of the box.  I
> don't, I want to update what and when I want, not have it just happen.
> Richard, where do you think Ubuntu's update manager comes from???  Mandriva
> has an update manager too, which I tell people also not to use, but to do
> updates consciously when they are sure they want to.
>
> The difference between Debian and Ubuntu is what gets updated, and the
> release schedule.  You are better off, for purposes of stability, with a two
> year major release schedule and updates of the existing release between
> them, than you are with Dozy Dragon coming out now and six months later
> being followed by Loopy Leonard.
Those silly names are extremely discouraging, that I will give you . . .  :)

Frankly it is very cheap.

>   This is much closer to how both Apple and
> MS work.
>
> My point about the Rev support is this.  I don't know exactly what you could
> do to STOP Rev running on Mandriva or the Slackware derivatives.  Its a
> crazy idea.  It runs on them by default.  Its not that Rev has a problem
> with some distros, what works on one works on all.  Its the generic level of
> feature support that is the problem.
>
>
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