We’re getting really close to releasing a second BETA for Celena. Things have been cleaned up, we’ve fixed many of the problems reported by the community and everything looks pretty stable.

A few more tests will be performed and we should expect a BETA release early next week.

A new command line tool is coming in Celena BETA 018 called “apt”. It’s a very simple addition which merges commands from apt-get, aptitude and apt-cache. It also doesn’t require the user to type “sudo” in front of the command.

This tool will make life easier for command line afficionados who used to type a lot of APT commands.

For instance instead of typing:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo aptitude reinstall gnome-utils

sudo aptitude show gnome-utils

You’ll be able to type:

apt update

apt upgrade

apt reinstall gnome-utils

apt show gnome-utils

Supported commands include:

•  update
• upgrade
• dist-upgrade
• dselect-upgrade
• build-dep
• check
• install
• remove
• source
• clean
• autoremove
• autoclean
• search
• show
• changelog
• reinstall
• stats
• depends
• rdepends

As you can see there’s nothing new but it’s all about comfort. Of course if you prefer to use apt-get, aptitude and apt-cache they still will be there for you.

Well kind of…

 http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2568321546.html

Let’s hope they go all the way and that nVidia makes a similar decision.

If you were going to buy a PC, I recommend you wait just a little while  longer 😉