The illustrated Linux distro newbie guide

May your mind be blown away: an article presenting an illustrated dependency graph between various top Linux distributions, their package management systems and desktop environments, as a friendly guide for new users and recent converts. Enjoy most profoundly.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-newbie-illustrated-guide.html


Cheers,
Mrk

 

What a lovely wallpapper I got,thank you Santa

BTW.

#!/bin/bash
clip=$(xclip -o)
mplayer -geometry 100%:100% -ontop -xy 300 -nocache $(youtube-dl -g $clip)

 

Thanks - btw, slow down mate, I haven't even blinked in that direction yet.
Mrk

 

Synaptic Package Manager?

-- Tom

 

But what's underneath?
Mrk

 

In your original post Mrk how did you know?

How did you know that's exactly what my last fortune cookie said?



I'd really like to see this graph with thick discernible greatly different colored lines so we could see whats really going on.

 

I can give you the graphviz file and you spin a version
Mrk

 

looks like star wars love letters or GI joe and cobra tango

jokes apart really nice piece of artwork

thanks mrk

 

In the case of newbies - do you always answer a question with a question - that is no way to treat newbies! It should be sufficient to just tell them instead of asking them. This is a case of a question retarding the flow of information.

-- Tom

 

Nothing like a challenging question to stimulate the flow of innovative thinking, or is it?
Mrk

 

Just answer the question about Synaptic Package Manager and what's underneath it, if you please.

-- Tom

 

I mean I was listing only the basic raw command line package managers.
Not the utilities that wrap them, or present a GUI, like yum, apt, zypper, etc.
And then the frontends, like synaptic, muon, etc.

Which is why we have only deb, rpm and pet listed.

Mrk