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Conectiva Linux 9 Review

Posted by michael on from the linux-down-under dept.

JigSaw writes "Here's an english review of a popular Linux distro in the Latin American countries: Conectiva Linux 9. Jason Prince investigates its installation, the desktop usage, the package manager (synaptic) and some of the problems he met on the way."

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  1. A bit late though... by keeboo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Conectiva Linux 9 is already rather old...
    The 10th release is arriving soon.

  2. Conectiva by Kurt+Russell · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were the first with apt-get for rpms. Pretty cool distro.

  3. The new Conectiva CL 10 is entering in RC stage... by helioc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Was really nice see this review of Conectiva 9 even now near release of next one. For everyone interested in help with next release development, go to https://moin.conectiva.com.br/TechnologyPreview ( English link ) and see download directions to latest test release.

  4. Good review but... by mvdwege · · Score: 4, Informative

    How can I trust it when he is overlooking something so obvious as the 'Find' option in Synaptic?

    I quote: it won't let you search the apt catalogues using natural language queries. For example, searching for 'word processor' returns no results; a more experienced user would know that they had to search for 'OpenOffice' or 'Abiword' to display the packages they were seeking. It would be great if Synaptic could search the package descriptions, as well as the title.

    Now, in my Synaptic install (Debian unstable) I see the following: in the right top corner is a search box that does an incremental search on package name only. In the Package menu I find an option named Find (shortcut Ctrl-F, as a Windows/IE user would expect it) which allows me to search on all fields of the package. By default the search dialog that comes up searches on both package name and description.

    Otherwise I would say, Synaptic rocks! It is the nicest package manager I have ever used. I still do apt-get install for individual packages, but for finding packages and just browsing the tree, I use Synaptic. The daunting aspect the reviewer notes is due to the sheer amount of packages available, some 5500 on Conectiva, and some 14000 on Debian.

    Just try it. Get synaptic (and if you're on an rpmbased system, apt4rpm) and give it a whirl. You won't go back.

    Mart
    --
    "I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
  5. Re:Penguins in South America by jas79 · · Score: 4, Informative

    apperently not