The Lurker

Package management is and has always been the killer feature of Linux

Mark Pilgrim explains his adorably controversial post about installing MySQL on Ubuntu:

Long answer: Comprehensive dependency tracking and automatic package updating is a Tier 1 feature, the single biggest user-facing advantage of Linux distributions over similarly targeted proprietary operating systems. Software freedom is the Tier 0 feature that enables this to work as well as it does. (If you want to see how well the system works without software freedom, check out the 64-bit Windows forums where people complain endlessly about driver incompatibilities.)

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