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The repository system on Debian, Arch, Fedora is clearly not a walled garden like Apple or Microsoft's app stores. Any site can host a repository that you can a
by binomialxenon 8y ago
The repository system on Debian, Arch, Fedora is clearly not a walled garden like Apple or Microsoft's app stores. Any site can host a repository that you can add to your package manager's sources, and you're free to install .deb/.rpm packages from any source you want, not to mention tarballs or compiling from source code. Also, there's no motive for lock-in like mainstream app stores have.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoOnly if those sources keep things up to date with the changes in the main repository, and every other repository the user uses, so as to avoid conflicts. > not to mention tarballs or compiling from source code Seriously? You may as well say iOS is open because you can root it.