So, I googled around for a decent GUI and found Porticus. And I rarely dive into the terminal to manually check for updates. It provides similar features to apt-get but you don’t get update notifications without diving into the terminal. On OS X I have been using MacPorts from the terminal. As I was on a clean install of Ubuntu 7.10 I fired off a apt-get install twiki and lo and behold, two minutes later the whole thing was there including mysql and a large part of the CPAN library. At work the other day I was about to begin installing TWiki by following the rather lengthy installation guidelines. I agree wholeheartedly that a good package manager really makes life a lot easier. I hope the translucent menu bar is worth it. Christ, it must suck giant wet donkey balls to be stuck on an archaic OS where you need to be dropping into the terminal and tweaking configuration files and compiling shit all the time. Mark Pilgrim writes about the benefits of the easy-to-use package manager in Ubuntu and then feels sorry for his Mac OS-using friends.
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