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LWCE Bits and Pieces

Posted by Hemos on from the coverage-from-afar dept.

Well, we've gotten a massive number of submissions with the haps at LWCE. I've distilled some of the good ones below: Chanc_Grokon wrote to us with the press release from Ximian about the monthly charges for Red Carpet, their installer. He also raises the "Why not just use apt-get?" point. A number of people wrote pointing out LinuxLookup.com's Day 1 coverage and Day 2 coverage. Of particular interest to Daeslin was Larry Lessig's attack on overly strong intellectual property laws. A number of people, Krismon included, have voiced some disappointment at the excitement of the show - not being there, I make no judgments. Sun has unveiled more details about StarOffice 6. Compaq's CTO also made comments about Linux improving in the enterprise. jrbw sent in Linus' thoughts (dismissive) of .Net/Hailstorm. And KDE has won the "Best Open Source Project" award. Newsforge has also got a round-up and coverage piece. More news as it happens.

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  1. Red Carpet vs. apt-get by SyntheticTruth · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think it's easy for us geeks to forget why such things as Red Carpet are needed.

    I will always argue that apt-get has to be one of the best linux app installers, but a huge part of apt-get is command-line oriented. Red Carpet, although using rpm's, is graphical and is much easier for a gui-oriented linux user to handle. I've used Red Carpet and I like what I see so far, it goes a long way of making linux newbie-friendly. (...and all you CLI die-hards, please just hush. ;)

    As long as they price it right, I think a service like Red Carpet would be worth the money, just for ease of use, point-n-click, user-friendliness of installing new software and updates -- something that will bring *nix further along, because right now, I see two things holding us back: a really kick-ass office suite (coming along nicely, really) and ease-of-use software installation.

    I, for one, am willing to pay money for *good* software and services...

  2. Re:"Why not just use apt-get?" by GauteL · · Score: 3, Informative

    And it simply does not provide everything that Red-Carpet does.
    Very nice things about Red Carpet:
    1. Easy access to different channels.
    2. Very nice and professional updating.
    3. Automatic cryptographic validation.
    4. No hunting for usable mirrors.

    apt-get is not the beginning or end of everything. It is a very nice tool, but for Joe Average, Red Carpet is quite simply amazing, and it'll get even better with more 3rd-party channels, and easy access to commercial applications.
    Btw. Red Carpet is also available for Debian.

    The rule is: don't use it if you don't need it or want it.