Rev for Linux (was Re: iPadding around?)

Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Feb 3 03:33:05 EST 2010


"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.  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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