Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[rgheck]

On 09/12/2009 03:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 09/12/2009 10:46 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>    
>> On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>      
>>> Then there is the "synaptic" tool, which makes all fedora gui update
>>> tools look like something scraped off the bottom of a bridge :-(.
>>> Since doing updates is a common operation visible to all users
>>> across all distros, I've always suspected that synaptic was
>>> the primary reason ubuntu was somewhat more popular.
>>>        
>> Synaptic is definitely the best gui package manager I have used. Its so
>> easy to do everything, even distro upgrades are a few clicks away!
>>      
> That has nothing to do with the packaging format however. Synaptic is
> available in Fedora as well btw.
>
>    
That's true, but of course it doesn't do upgrades as cleanly as on 
Debian-based systems.

rh