From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3aaafc130904172303i5ba89dc1hdaf6026f52173717@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:15:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130904180915v5ce5b809xb6c46141f7dbc1f5@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e63684ae-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:11 AM, wrote: >> The update/installation process in Ubuntu sucks. If you try something >> using BSD ports or Gentoo portage, you can fine tune things and have >> explicit control over the update process. > > I was specifically omitting BSD ports, as they are in a different > league. =A0The point I _was_ making is that one readily sacrifices > control for convenience and that Linux and Windows users and those who > assist them have to accept second-rate management and pay for it (I > should know, I can see it when XP decides to use the GPRS link for its > updating :-( > > Enough reason for me to prefer Plan 9 (and NetBSD, but I can only get > my teeth into so many apples), if there weren't many more reasons. > > ++L > Seriously, give Gentoo portage a try. There is a sane package management system for Linux.