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Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by _qc3o »

This is really cool. If you're using Ubuntu or Debian as your base OS then you really should be managing your software with something like this and offloading your deployment to it as well. The benefits of a setup like that are dead-simple rollbacks and deployment scripts.

Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by smira »

pan69 wrote: post #3

I'm no grammar Nazi but the first sentence on this website had me completely tripped up: >> Linux distribution is well-tested collection of packages carefully organized and supported by the vendor. wat?

Sorry for my bad English.

Does this sound better:

"Linux distribution is a well-tested collection of packages that are carefully organized and supported by the vendor."

Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by [deleted] »

smira wrote: post #5
pan69 wrote: post #3

I'm no grammar Nazi but the first sentence on this website had me completely tripped up: >> Linux distribution is well-tested collection of packages carefully organized and supported by the vendor. wat?

Sorry for my bad English. Does this sound better: "Linux distribution is a well-tested collection of packages that are carefully organized and supported by the vendor."

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Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by smira »

Havvy wrote: post #7

What does this give you over using NixOS?

NixOS is aiming for the same goal, I believe. NixOS is built on top of different package manager, Nix.

With aptly you're still using your favorite Debian/Ubuntu distro, installing packages with apt-get and so on.

Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by deathanatos »

pan69 wrote: post #3

I'm no grammar Nazi but the first sentence on this website had me completely tripped up: >> Linux distribution is well-tested collection of packages carefully organized and supported by the vendor. wat?

> I'm no grammar Nazi but

Our author seems to consistently make the same mistake: there's a distinct lack of articles in the writing. Sprinkle some in, and things start to make sense:

> [A] Linux distribution is [a] well-tested collection of packages

> we would like to have [an] internal mirror of [a] package repository

> some packages are missing in [the] official distribution

> we would like to own [a] package repository, that is to have [a] package repository

> There are many tools to create [a] mirror of [the] Debian package repositories

… and so on. At any rate, this consistency suggests (to me, at least) that he's probably not a native English speaker; in fact, the writer is almost certainly Russian. There's a link to a sponsor, which has a Russian phone number, and if you click around enough, you can find his CV quite easily.

Not everyone on the Internet speaks English, however, enough people do that I could easily see it being beneficial to put your content in English. Who knows?

Re: Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution

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Post by codeflo »

smira wrote: post #5
pan69 wrote: post #3

I'm no grammar Nazi but the first sentence on this website had me completely tripped up: >> Linux distribution is well-tested collection of packages carefully organized and supported by the vendor. wat?

Sorry for my bad English. Does this sound better: "Linux distribution is a well-tested collection of packages that are carefully organized and supported by the vendor."

The missing article at the start of the sentence makes it very hard to decipher if you're talking about Linux distributions in general or a specific one. "A Linux distrubution is ..." is probably what you intended to say, but I'm not sure.
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