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Designing Good Linux Applications

Posted by michael on from the not-an-oxymoron dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "A guy from IBM's Linux Impact Team in Brazil has written a guest column on Linux and Main describing how applications should integrate with Linux. It's Red Hat-centric, but there is a lot of material about the FHS and LSB that most users probably don't know."

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  1. Graphical installers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Especially if it is a commercial product, your application must provide a graphical installer. Believe me, they are impressive in a demonstration, and CIOs love them.

    What kind of crap is that? Any geek will tell you that if some software can't be batch-installed remotely, it isn't worth shit.