On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 08:10 +1000, Peter Flodin wrote:
Hi all,
Having just returned from using Ubuntu as my main OS for a few months (I give another distro a go every now and then, but I have returned everytime so far :-), there is one thing that Ubuntu users have available that makes it very easy to setup a new machine, and that is Automatix. http://getautomatix.com/ . Automatix has got a good wrap lately with the admission that Michael Dell (of Dell Computers) uses it on his personal computer.
Ideally one would solve it without yet another way to install things. What stops us (technically, legally etc) creating a similar meta repository for openSUSE, that doesn't host the actual packages but just pointers to download them from the 3rd parties? eg: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-1.4.0.118-suse.i586.rpm http://download.gizmoproject.com/GizmoDownload/gizmo-project-3.1.0.77-1.i386... http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-2.0.1-55017.i386... etc ie. it covers 3rd party packages that we can't host or redistribute, but a nice central location that is a great benefit for the user.
pflodo Peter Flodin.
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Automatix is a disaster waiting to happen. Reading your arguments I get the impression you haven't tested openSUSE 10.3 yet. Otherwise you would know that nowadays guru's repositories have been merged with packman. And you can easily install the packman repository through yast. Making software like automatix irrelevant (not to mention the new opensuse packages site). -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org