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Application Bundles for Linux (drag&drop installer)
- megamark16 17y agoThis is awesome. I am a big Portable Apps fan (on windows anyway), I've got a folder with most of the apps I use regularly and I just copy it to any new Windows based computer and I'm up and running. It includes: OpenOffice Firefox Opera Putty WinSCP VirtualBox Portable with a WindowsXP development VM (Visual Studio and SQL Server) A ton of other apps that rock But I love Linux and hate that I have to reinstall a ton of stuff every time I setup (or reimage) a workstation.
- andrewtj 17y agoI think http://0install.net http://0install.net is a better solution as it handles updates and works on multiple platforms. Regardless, unless a couple of major distributions support one of these alternative install systems they're ultimately a futile effort. This is something that's unlikely to change since from a distributions standpoint they don't offer significant advantages over the status quo. As an aside, to anyone considering an alternative install system, please take heed of the PC-BSD folks and bootstrap your package system by generating packages from an existing system.