Muy aparte de que estoy muy contento por el crecimiento de Ubuntu en nuestra comunidad, también estoy orgulloso de aparecer en planeta.Ubuntu.ec. Hola con todos aquí! Mi nombre es Manuel Amador, y escribo sobre tecnología — particularmente, sobre Linux. Espero mis artículos los entretengan — visítenme y subscríbanse!
A long long time ago, in a gal… in an older computer, I had Fedora. RPM — the packaging system in Fedora — was amazing in several aspects. And the aspect that continually amazed me was the transactionality of software installs: a set of packages either gets installed, or it doesn’t. No halfway installs, no broken shit. Ever.
Since apparently my last article ignited a small flamewar, let’s talk a bit about package management in RPM-based distros. Yeah, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, those. And when I say package management, all I mean is software installation, really.
When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight:
In an effort to better understand how each of the PulseAudio components interact with each other, I’ve done a small diagram that roughly shows how each component connects and interacts:
If you’re one of our regular readers, you’ll remember reading the article and script I wrote on automating BitTorrent downloads with TorrentFlux and rsync. The script has come to be quite handy to me, but the process of writing it is much more fun and appealing. Here’s how I did it.
Here’s the one-liner version of the Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy (7.10) upgrade (in case the distribution upgrade tool fails — it failed in my computer=. Copy and paste this on an open console window, and you’re very probably set:
TorrentFlux-b4rt is an awesome masterpiece of engineering. You install it on your Web server, and then you can start downloading BitTorrent torrents right away. The catch is that those torrents are saved in your Web server until you actually download them to your PC. And having to schedule downloads separately is a pain. Well, no more.
For the last six months, I’ve been reading article after article spewing the same bovine manure: Look at how many updates Distribution X issued! How can it be more secure than Windows? Let’s bury that stupidity under a ton of facts: