is ubuntu the only distro with a 'software center' ?

[spongefinger]

i find it very useful in ubuntu to install everything from the software center, it reminds me a little bit of an android app store etc.

is ubuntu and its variants the only linux distros that have it, or would something like fedora 15 have its own version?

[Irithori]

I didnt even care to look until your request.
As I find yum on the commandline much more convenient and faster than any gui tool can be

But there is
"Add/Remove Software" in the applications area.

[Peter D]

I don't think that there is anything quite like the Software Centre anywhere else.

Many users prefer to use the command line, but for browsing, and now on 11.04, being able to get a user rating for software it is very good. It seems to be getting better with every release.

[sgosnell]

Every distro that I know of has one or more repositories, they just don't call them "software centers". Most have some form of GUI to install software, but it varies a lot. I never used the "software center" even when I ran Ubuntu, I just used Synaptic or the command line, which all the Debian-based distros, which certainly includes Ubuntu, have. I'm not a fan of cuteness for cuteness' sake, nor of Windows-like toys for the ignorant. But that's just me.

[Charles4809]

There is something similar for Bodhilinux.
Bodhi is based on Ubuntu LTS, but uses E17 as desktopmanager, which makes it very lightweight and fast in use.

From their website you can read about available software, install it directly from the website or download the software, including an installer, and perform the install from disk without being online (or on a different machine).

Charles

[arochester]

Debian has a Software Center

[Cuzit]

What you're asking for, I take it, is a GUI software locator, such as the Ubuntu Software Centre, Android Marketplace, or Apple App Store. This is really just a front-end for what's known in the Linux world as "repositories," large collections of software, libs, and whatnot. Almost all modern Linux distros have some sort of repository, but most of these require command line tools to use, such as Ubuntu/Debian's apt-get or Arch's pacman -S. The only distros I know for sure have a GUI repository (like the Ubuntu Software Centre) are Ubuntu itself and Linux Mint. Technically Arch, if you consider exploring the AUR with a web browser a GUI repository.

Command line tools are easy to learn, though, so almost all Linux distros have something like what you're looking for, but few have GUI interfaces for them that I'm aware of.

[marting]

Many Linux distros have there own package manager (software center) as a feature for its users. Besides, GNOME usually includes a package manager called Synaptic which I find really useful. Indeed, if you are using GNOME, distros like Debian, Tuquito Linux and Ubuntu should have Synaptic installed.

Hope this is useful

[daark.child]

Most distros have something similar to "software centre". Mandriva, Red Hat, Debian and SUSE have had a GUI frontend to their software repositories well before Ubuntu was first released and other distros either have CLI or GUI tools which work in a similar fashion.