It's so cheap and easy to spread mis-information by just copying words to sell add space.
It's like cheating on an exam, whatever you get wrong on the test, they can blame someone else, but still want to be paid for the copy.

Any way, I like the colours.

Nala update shows "no change" in green, "updated" in blue and "errors" in red in a tidy format.

Saves scanning all the text for important warnings.

I saw that "apt" post in the Reg as well.

If they haven't, or if they need Apt to be different, they can set APT::Color::Red and/or APT::Color::Green as appropriate.

Not only that, but this change has only just entered Unstable - which is where such things are tested and changed if needed, long before making it to an actual release, so if this change is detrimental then something can be done about it.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel a real journalist should have bothered to do the small amount of research it took to confirm the configurability? Maybe they simply had a minimum word count to reach and couldn't be arsed...

"Major updates to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool don't come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.
APT version 2.9 has just been accepted into Debian's unstable development channel. This is an unfinished development version, which should lead to APT 3 in time for Debian 13, which will probably appear around mid-2025."
...
"Most notably, the new version uses colored output. Packages to be installed or upgraded are listed in green by default, and ones to be removed are listed in red. This will make the distinction clearer for those of us with working color vision, but it's not the best choice for those who suffer from daltonism, or red/green color blindness – the most common form, affecting some 8 or 9 percent of men."

But it would be kind of nice to have apt show some color in the output, configurable of course. Perhaps using LS_COLORS like ls does somehow? It would make the output a little more lively.

BTW, I read it in a Linux Magazine April 2024. Maybe they were filling space.

Quite so.
But it does.

And some money/time (no idea how much it could be) has been invested in producing it.

As per my rant, there are hundreds other more useful abandoned projects in need of maintenance to adopt and help out with in Linux.
Why Nala? Yet another solution looking for a problem?

Maybe because ... ... it registers it in the JSON file under a unique ID.?
Nah!   8^°

Best,

A.

There's a similar program that has been around for years

Thank you for the info

Apt, dpkg, Synaptic and aptitude are (still) great tools to work with. Nala has no real technical reason to exist, other then eye-candy for a particular kind of user and an itch scratched for the dev(s).

Just me tuppence

For more information, see:

https://wiki.debian.org/Wajig

Wajig: Linux System Management

And TDE KPackage for variety sometimes.

This thing is pure apt. Best GUI ever

Yes, that was my main point.

I don't think they are old or ancient.
My Ultra 24 WS is ca. 2007 and was considered ancient when I purchased it used/almost new in 2015 for ~US$300.
Still works perfectly well, just added RAM and upgraded the processor.

That said, there's also the well known Timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs phrase. (Virgil/Aeneid)

But like I wrote before: maybe it's just me at this age.

Best,

A.

According to my observations, the download speed (approx. 2Mbit/sec  from
https://devuan.rosset.eu.org/devuan-files/  , for example   ) is limited by the server.

My Internet speed according to speedtest (fiber optic-router-WiFi) is 25...30 Mbit/sec. Therefore, whether there is one or three at once, there is no difference.

Synaptic and apt are quite satisfactory.
And TDE KPackage for variety sometimes.