User talk:Smcv

A couple of edits were made yesterday, [1], [2], 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 apt-get 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)