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In a similar vein, but I think it’s only concerned about security issues rather than the latest version of software, you can go to the Secunia website and use their Software Inspector (if you’ve got Java installed): http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Hippo sounds interesting, but (like most other tools) it only tells you about updates and where to look, it won’t install them for you. That’s why I like Microsoft Update, and more (Microsoft) applications will apparently be appearing on there too.
Obviously everyone is behind some of the app management tools that are available with many Linux distros, such as the Advanced Packaging Tool (apt-get can potentially make life a lot easier for managing Linux, as many newbies don’t know how to configure make make install).
It’d be a godsend if something like BSD’s ports system (on which portage is based, of course) were available for other operating systems. Of course, that’d then require install programs to be standardised and well-behaved, which a great many really aren’t.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:04 am
In a similar vein, but I think it’s only concerned about security issues rather than the latest version of software, you can go to the Secunia website and use their Software Inspector (if you’ve got Java installed): http://secunia.com/software_inspector/
Hippo sounds interesting, but (like most other tools) it only tells you about updates and where to look, it won’t install them for you. That’s why I like Microsoft Update, and more (Microsoft) applications will apparently be appearing on there too.
Obviously everyone is behind some of the app management tools that are available with many Linux distros, such as the Advanced Packaging Tool (apt-get can potentially make life a lot easier for managing Linux, as many newbies don’t know how to configure make make install).
April 4th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I don’t think it not installing things for you is necessarily a bad thing. A link to the download page would be nice, though.
April 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
It’d be a godsend if something like BSD’s ports system (on which portage is based, of course) were available for other operating systems. Of course, that’d then require install programs to be standardised and well-behaved, which a great many really aren’t.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Chris!
I think there are a couple of ports or ports-like systems for the mac…
Darwin Ports
MacPorts (no idea if that one is what I think it is or not - not enough description!)
Then of course, there’s ‘gentoo for the mac’ - essentially portage:
Gentoo for Mac OS X
October 1st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Another one for the mac: AppFresh