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Is this link surfacing because Apple claims the App Store is unique and Lindows pre-dates it?

• hnlmorg 5y ago
  Lindows didn't create any of the tech behind their "app store". That's based on Debian's "apt" which is from the late 90s. What's more, SuSE had a GUI package manager, YaST[1]. before any Debian re-spin did. But if you want to talk about the first command line package manager, well FreeBSD nips Linux to the post with it's 'ports' directory[2] back in the early 90s. Weirdly though, all of this is pre-dated with something that is much more akin to a modern day app store. Unsurprisingly, it was released for NeXT -- though made by a third party called Paget Press, Inc. Their "Electronic AppWrapper"[3] had everything a modern day app store does: + GUI (which itself wasn't all that common in 1991), + commercial titles which the app store maintainers too a percentage of + a common gateway for download the programs I don't know what happened to Paget Press but I wouldn't be surprised if Steve Jobs bought them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APT_(software) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaST [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Ports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Ports [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_AppWrapper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_AppWrapper