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Petreley On Simplifying Software Installation for Linux

Posted by timothy on from the but-gentoo dept.

markcappel writes "RAM, bandwidth, and disk space are cheap while system administrator time is expensive. That's the basis for Nicholas Petreley's 3,250-word outline for making Linux software installation painless and cross-distro." The summary paragraph gives some hint as to why this isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

3 of 292 comments (clear)

  1. first spoiler by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    trinity dies

    -klerck

  2. Nice to see Nick back in the swing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice to see Nick back in the swing of things, after his ... accident.

  3. Re:Autopackage comes to mind by spacefight · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dude. Again, could you please move your goddamn spam into your sig? There is no relation between your webcalc URL and your made comment. thanks.