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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.

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  1. I have an example: by fireboy1919 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problems plagueing X11 right now - namely an API that is being used with graphics primitives that are, well...TOO primitive for normal use.

    The code is huge, the programs that use it are huge, and it runs very slowly.

    All to support backward compatibility.

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