Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[suvayu ali]

2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> 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
>

Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
dpkg/apt-get front end. I am more at ease with rpm and yum on the  cmd
line.

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Suvayu

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