:Linux.com: Why the DCC Alliance Needs to Love Synaptic
Linux.com: Why the DCC Alliance Needs to Love Synaptic Oct 11, 2005, 00 :15 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7040 reads) (Other stories by Robin Miller)
"Debian users have always boasted that their Advanced Package Tool (APT) was the best and fastest way there has ever been to install and delete software. They were right, except for two details: First, many computer users are scared of the command line--and APT is a command line utility. Second, even for users not afraid of the command line, setting download repositories and other parameters was not easy unless you spent enough of your time administering computers to remember all the text commands it took to make APT do what you wanted. Then came Synaptic, which promised to make Debian software installs GUI-friendly. Not long after that came a version of Synaptic that didn't crash every time I tried to use it. And finally, in late 2004, Synaptic became so lovable that I would no longer want to have a desktop computer without it..."
