[ Thanks to aRTee for this link.
]
“This review is subtitled ‘the Desktop Linux Showcase’ which
hints that it’s not going to be a regular review about Mandriva
Linux 2006–I will certainly mention the strong and weak points
about Mandriva Linux 2006, and report how things work in everyday
use. But on top of that, I have decided to add some (well, a lot)
more information; first, you will find an article within this
review, about the background of the software repositories and
software installation on Linux (please use that permanent link to
the inline article). This will be illustrated and explained with
Mandriva Linux specific tools, but most of the information is valid
for all major Linux distributions.“It occurred to me that there’s actually no clear background
information that explains this great system, or at least, one
doesn’t come across it easily. I have done quite a bit of
webbrowsing/searching, but most advanced users just tell the
novices to use some arcane (well, arcane to the novice users)
commands or fill in some GUI with some information about
ftp-mirrors…”