User talk:Smcv

Software Requirements
A couple of edits were made yesterday,, , the first I believe was from yourself. Now, I am by no means a GNU/Linux user, although I have done server scripting in Ubuntu, so when I made those edits they may not have been correct. However, I don't totally understand the ones you made either. Could you explain those to me? Would be much appreciated! --User:Bb 20

Only the second edit was from me. There was also an intermediate edit marked as minor, which changed "Debian/Ubuntu" to "GNU/Linux".

The minor-editor is correct to say that GNU/Linux is a broader term than Debian or Ubuntu - distributions (versions) of GNU/Linux include Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo etc. The point of both the edits you linked to is that the  command is specific to Debian and distributions derived from Debian (of which Ubuntu is a popular example) - you can't "apt-get upgrade" on Fedora or Gentoo, there's some other tool to use there instead.

I'm not familiar with the upgrade tools on all Linux distributions, so I didn't provide detailed upgrade instructions for anything except Debian and Ubuntu. To be honest, I'm not convinced there's much point in having detailed instructions for Debian/Ubuntu either - a "typical" Linux system with a GUI like GNOME or KDE will automatically nag the user about package updates and offer to install those updates without needing to run command-line tools, and anyone who installs a system without that feature ought to know how to update it. --smcv 09:31, 22 August 2013 (UTC)