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Adept, Welcome to Your Installer (3 of ?)

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

The CLI Edition
Okay, so I must confess up front, I’m not going to give you any information about adept here. This is related to adept, though not actually about adept. This is about how to get behind the scenes of package management. I invite all you happy people to comment on this [...]

Popularity: 27%

Adept, Welcome to Your Installer (Part 2 of ?)

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Okay, as promised, here’s the second installment of the adept rundowns. Let’s do this in order. First I’ll do Installer, then I’ll do Manager, then Updater, and since Updater and Batch are essentially the same, I’m going to skip Batch. Also, remember that my bird-brain can only hold so much information at [...]

Popularity: 33%

Adept, Welcome to Your Installer (Part 1 of ?)

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Just a word for those of you tuning in, this will be a multi-part post on Adept, what it is, who uses it, and how one uses it.
Yes, I’m talking about Adept. What’s Adept you ask? Well, check out the write-up on Adept on kde-apps.
Who uses Adept you ask? Well, the simple [...]

Popularity: 36%

A GNU Emacs guy’s challenge to vi guys

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Alright, so any hacker with air in their lungs has heard of these debates where someone argues vi sucks, and someone else claims that GNU Emacs is slow or sluggish, then the vi guy says that vi is easier to use, and the GNU Emacs guy says that no, GNU Emacs is in fact easier [...]

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