Going forward [Re: Automatix?]

[Tristan Wibberley]

Jason Taylor wrote:
> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3736/0/
> 
> "The point of all this is that from the standpoint of a new Linux
> user, having a snazzy looking interface is all well and good but it
> means nothing if users have to revert to the command line to perform
> what should be simple tasks. Installing new downloaded software is one
> of the most common tasks performed by desktop users at home and in
> small offices. Until the Linux suppliers can make this task trivial,
> they will continue to miss out on a whole world of users beyond the
> command line geeks."
> 

Correction, it is one of the most common tasks... on Windows and Fedora.
Ubuntu has synaptic, installing downloaded packages should be a very
rare thing indeed. It should be done once with a tool like EasyUbuntu
that does it for you, end to end, then just about never done again.

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Tristan Wibberley