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> and who knows, that might just trigger some kind of revolution in Windows app management Free trials of un-tar? Installing apps that require subscriptions to
by logn 12y ago
> and who knows, that might just trigger some kind of revolution in Windows app management
Free trials of un-tar? Installing apps that require subscriptions to the cloud? Dev libraries that require enterprise support packages?
Good package management on Linux is owed largely to the tireless voices such as Stallman who understand the core issues here. Yes, tying together install scripts and maintaining repositories requires a lot of work, and good for Microsoft. But the reason It Just Works is because the software is free, from top to bottom, including the OS. And Mac will have the same problem here as Windows. For now, I'm guessing this is just a command-line interface to app stores.
- spain 12y agoPretty much. While it's cool coming from Microsoft I'm willing to bet it's going to be an inferior implementation one way or another compared to Linux distributions.
- nailer 12y agoWhy? Powershell innovated a lot over bash - try and kill all processes started in the last hour with bash, then do the same with posh (hint: a regex is a terrible, terrible way to deal with time). MS could do something good with package management.
- Touche 12y agoTry writing a Powershell cmdlet in a language not designed by Microsoft.
- shin_lao 12y agoDon't be so negative. Microsoft announced a partnership with Docker. And there is a lot of free software on Windows as well.
- bradgessler 12y agoYou don't get it.
- nailer 12y ago> Good package management on Linux is owed largely to the tireless voices such as Stallman I thought it was due to the people designing the package managers. The people who run the repos Stallman-like end up shipping IceWeasel and Chromium and telling long boring stories to someone who just wanted Firefox and Chrome.
- tyho 12y agoIt was not the decision of debian to rebrand Firefox. Mozilla forced them to. Debian wanted to be able to ship security patches whenever they pleased, Mozilla required that they shipped Firefox stock, even if that meant waiting for Mozilla to approve security patches. Chrome is not open source. Chrome tracks you. Chromium is open source and does not track you. Other than the slight branding differences, a user would not know the difference. How are these slight changes an issue?
- Sir_Cmpwn 12y agoI think you missed the point.
- dllthomas 12y ago... that wanting to deliver security fixes faster than upstream is bad?
- marcosdumay 12y agoI think YOU missed the point. If Debian were subjected to the wishes of the authors of every piece of software they distribute, there would be no Debian.
- Mikeb85 12y ago> Chrome is not open source. Chrome tracks you. Chromium is open source and does not track you. I'm pretty sure neither Chrome nor Chromium 'track you'. When you sign in to your Google account, then they keep track of your searches, to provide things like auto-complete, remember your book marks, and provide hints, location services, etc... There's a huge difference between tracking you personally, and reading some information, keeping it in a database and providing you a better service later... (not going to lie, yesterday my boss sent me an email for a meeting, and GMail then automatically made a reminder for me and pushed it to my phone via Google Now - pretty damn awesome if you ask me). The only differences I've seen between Chromium and Chrome is that Chromium lacks the Pepper plugin by default (which provides Flash), and the Hangouts binary blob. All the 'tracking' if you really want to call it that (I personally wouldn't), happens through Google services, not Chrome per se...
- mrknmc 12y agoPackage management with Homebrew on OS X actually works quite well. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft comes up with.