Users and Groups Discussion

I don’t really know what to say here except “piece of cake”.  I didn’t have any problems with either the server or the desktop end of the assignment.  I’ve had limited experience creating both from the command line.  I’ve generally used webmin or gnome.  It’s a pretty straight forward task.

It was interesting to find out the difference between apt-get and aptitude.  I was wondering from the beginning of the course why we were using aptitude.  After a little online research I found that aptitude actually uninstalls orphaned packages while apt-get doesn’t.  This means that after uninstalling a package that you no longer need, aptitude automatically removes the dependencies that the program used that aren’t used by any other program.  Apt-get leaves those packages, taking up space on your hard drive.  I’ll be using aptitude much more from now on.  It’ll take a little getting used to since I use apt-cache to search for packages etc. but I think it’ll be worth it in the long run to learn a few more commands.