Restless With Apt-Get

I typed alt-f2 to open the gui terminal. I want to download Win-FFmpeg, a video format converter. I was wondering about an alternative to Transmission bittorrent client too. This is an addiction for me. Once I finished with setting up the desktop, I download secondary applications. These are applications that I can do without or applications that do the same thing as already installed software.

My fingers get the itch to fire up apt-get or synaptic, well, because it is very easy. No googeling involved. If the software is in the repository everything is ready for your desktop. Of course in some cases people will point to a new release of firefox an an exception to these cases.

Mozilla just released Firefox 3.6. It's not yet listed in the official repository nor is it available as a deb file or even a bin file. Mozilla just can't bother with us folks in the Linux community. If Ubuntu users want to install the newest firefox they'll have to modify their software sources file and add mozilla's ppa. Even this method doesn't give you the firefox logo nor it's name.

Google beat Mozilla here because Ubuntu and Fedora users can download the latest releases of Google Chrome browser through the distro repository. That simple. Why not make Google Chrome browser the default browser? From where I am sitting Linux is receiving more support from Google Chrome browser than Mozilla's Firefox.

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