Hi,

Thanks for reviewing this edition. I just wanted to make a little comment about mintInstall (Software Portal). The reason we're using an online portal instead of directly using synaptic is simply because synaptic shows packages from a particular set of repositories. The portal doesn't show packages, it shows applications, whether these are in your repositories or not (mintInstall uses the sources.list provided by the application file, not the sources.list you've set on your system). So Synaptic is great to deal with packages, while the portal is great to deal with applications.

In most cases the application corresponds to a package of the same name present in the default repositories, but the protocol used by the portal can define applications that are related to packages from other repositories, or even non-deb packages. The .mint file you download is basically a set of instructions for your system to install that program... it can tell it to add a repository, add a key, install packages, untar an archive, run a few commands...etc... a .mint file is basically a Linux installer and it doesn't necessarily contain the program itself, so in this respect it's very different than a deb package.

I'm glad Windows users find it great for whatever reason... (I don't remember seeing a package manager or even an application manager in Windows). But we're not doing things for people to run Linux the way they run Windows, we're doing things because we think they're good :)

Thanks for the review,
All the best.

Clem.