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Cross Linux-Distro Application Installer
- ericmsimons 16y agoFinally. I always wondered "why don't all linux distros have a universal app installer?" It just didn't make sense
- bjg 16y agoThe people who work on PackageKit ( http://www.packagekit.org http://www.packagekit.org ) have had some clients working for a while ( I think 2008ish? ). This seems like the next step to creating a main stream, awesome client.
- ericmsimons 16y agoGood catch - I never saw that before. We're getting so close!
- fungi 16y ago> We will integrate with online social services to provide features like ratings and comments using OCS. OCS needs a couple of things added to the API, which will happen in the next few weeks woo hoo, will be great for building communities and finding software. and without the profit motive of commercial software the quality of the user generated content should (in theory) be a little higher and a bit less spammy (although the emacs/vim wars will find continue! and there will plenty of support requests when what we need is reviews) yesterday i was installing a dyndns service on a linux desktop, had to install them all just to workout which one would be the best fit for my needs, this would prob have saved me the trouble.
- rfugger 16y agoI didn't know a couple of the acronyms from the article. Here they are in case anyone else is puzzled like I was: CLA: Contributor License Agreement - http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark.html http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/10/20/open-letter-to-mark... OCS: Open Collaborative Services - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Collaboration_Services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Collaboration_Services