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EasyUbuntu |
Automatix |
Errata |
| Team driven. Ubuntu developer interaction | Arnieboy writes it all by himself. | A team has more combined experience. |
| Supports AMD64, PPC and x86 | Supports x86 | Discrimination sucks |
| Uses self-contained sources.list. Does not touch YOUR sources.list at all. Makes no changes to system settings. | Uses a non-official sources.list. Changes system settings permanently. | It is a known fact that using non official Ubuntu repositories will cause machines to fail. |
| Uses no potentially dangerous settings | As of 23 January, 2006, '--force-yes' was used. | --force-yes Force yes; This is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It should not be used except in very special situations. Using force-yes can potentially destroy your system! Configuration Item: APT::Get::force-yes. (preceding was output from 'man apt-get') |
| Fails gracefully. | No code evident for recovery after script interruption | If your car mechanic was called to the phone during a repair on your car, wouldn't you rather he remember where he was in the procedure? |
| Uses no potentially dangerous settings | As of 1 Feb, 2006, --force-yes is gone, but has "echo -e "y\nY\n"" | This comes into play when apt-get asks you, "This will eat your computer. Do you know what the hell you are doing? (y/N) it will echo Y. See above regarding --force-yes |