Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 12 19:54:18 UTC 2009


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.

Rahul




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