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Designing Good Linux Applications
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."
like maybe the HTML used for the article. it renders horribly on ie 5.5.
Then use a real browser instead...
Say no to software patents.
Just like cold fusion; it can't be done. If you own x86-family hardware, I recommend Microsoft Windows XP. Otherwise, buy a Mac.
The state of computing would be better advanced
if developers would switch to FreeBSD as a more
advanced and stable base.
The author seems to igonore the fact that in /usr/bin and such,
/usr/bin is that if you want to upgrade the OS cleanly, you will need to reinstall everything.
/opt and completely
the real world it not really wise to every put
anything (except OS stuff) in
even with a package manager. It is not really
that workable to install every package on every
machine, it is much simpler to install all of
the packages on some shared nfs disk and export
them to everyone.
The author seems to be living in some sort of
fantasy land that seems to only include single
users managing single machines, this is not what
the people that have the bulk of the machine are
doing. Even with the setup programs of microsoft
the large companies pretty much replace the setup
program, because it is not workable to send
a person out and run setup on each machine.
Also, another good reason not to install in
Well designed applications should have the
simple procedure of untar in directory you
want it, and setup this script or these paths,
or at least have this has a backup set of
instructions, this makes putting things on shared
disk much simpler.
And since we have a package manager, lets follow
the microsoft behavior and let all applications
bring updated shared libraries with them and
replace the system ones.
isolating the application is the smartest thing,
and since most applications don't even need root
access this also makes the installs safer.