http://www.yepthatsme.com/2006/11/02/ok-so-i-lied/ the craft of software development, free/open source software advocacy, and the rest of life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:00:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.yepthatsme.com/2006/11/02/ok-so-i-lied/#comment-3081 yep, that’s me - barry at alltc.com » The missing ingredient in commercial desktop OS options; a package management system Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:23:25 +0000 http://www.yepthatsme.com/2006/11/02/ok-so-i-lied/#comment-3081 [...] Having spent the better part of two days provisioning my new MacBook Pro’s OS X, Debian, and Windows XP instances, I am keenly aware of how much the Debian distribution’s package management system and its volume of packages have spoiled me. In that two days, the amount of time required to provision Debian was negligible, even though it is configured to completely match my Lifebook’s Debian Sid instance. In fact, the sum total of time to set up Debian, including every application I use, was about 45 minutes of my involvement. Those who know Debian (and Ubuntu, Linspire, Xandros, Mepis, or any other Debian derivative) are coolly nodding their heads, while others are probably thinking I am a lying, biased Linux zealot. [...] […] Having spent the better part of two days provisioning my new MacBook Pro’s OS X, Debian, and Windows XP instances, I am keenly aware of how much the Debian distribution’s package management system and its volume of packages have spoiled me. In that two days, the amount of time required to provision Debian was negligible, even though it is configured to completely match my Lifebook’s Debian Sid instance. In fact, the sum total of time to set up Debian, including every application I use, was about 45 minutes of my involvement. Those who know Debian (and Ubuntu, Linspire, Xandros, Mepis, or any other Debian derivative) are coolly nodding their heads, while others are probably thinking I am a lying, biased Linux zealot. […]

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