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Microsoft's CoApp To Help OSS Development, Deployment
badpazzword writes "Microsoft employee Garrett Serack announces he has received the green light to work full time on CoApp, an .msi-based package management system aiming to bring a wholly native toolchain for OSS development and deployment. This will hopefully bring more open source software on Windows, which will bring OSS to more users, testers and developers. Serack is following the comments at Ars Technica, so he might also follow them here. The launchpad project is already up."
In the same vein feel free to ask me about Linux.
Linus Torvalds
Linux Kernel Founder
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"
Aldous Huxley
I'm Santa.
Ask me about anything to do with snow, the north pole, midgets, flying reindeer and flying midgets.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
It all feels too much like a dirty beat up van in a shopping mall parking lot with "free candy" painted on the side...
I like Windows so please harass me too!
You like WHAT?!
Don't you know that every time you boot into Windows, an angel gets set on fire? Do you like doing that, you malevolent bastard?
Stop your evil ways, or when you die you'll go to GNU/Hell! Where your PC speaker beeps all day long, every day! Where all HTML must start with an unclosed blink tag! Where EDLIN is the good editor you'll get if you kiss the sysadmin's ass enough! Where all your printer drivers require you to sign away a testicle! Where you must work 19 hours a day bugfixing Visual Basic code written by retarded monkeys, only to have them make printouts of your corrections and defecate on them at the subsequent five hour meetings!
Repent! Repent!
Uh. That's it.
I use that all the time!
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
Does this service run on dead babies, or are they still alive and crying as you shovel them into the gaping maw of endless darkness that powers it?
I thought that was an attempt to get a stripper out of jail when I saw it.
I'm Santa.
There you are, you fat bastard. Where's My PONY?!?
Merry Christmas,
Virginia
I like Windows so please harass me too!
I'm pretty sure you get all the suffering you need already.
At least you can diff a config file. Try that with a gui.
I do that that all the time, screenshot + OCR only takes me 30 secs to pop the data into excel.
office/windows is a pretty stable work platform, Linux I'm always spending 15 minutes getting a screenshot app working.
Ask me about Grim Fandango.
FROM: Santa's Workshop helpdesk
TO: Virignia
We have finished the research on flying midgets. We are moving on to flying goats next, which should let us finally allow pigs to fly.
We thank you for your patience whilst we satisfy your mother's prerequisite requirements on when you can have a pony.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
By killer you mean those that admin it wish to kill themselves right?
The thing even lacks the ability to use smtp auth.
I'm Alfred the Butler.
Would you like a cup of tea Sirs?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I'm Batman.
Ask me about young boys in green tights and masks and I will deny that I ever let them inside my "bad cave".
This is the sort of thing that makes the FSM smile upon you and shall earn you an afterlife spent near the beer volcano and stripper factory.
It's 2010 and you are still doing *that*.
*sigh*
You know, that'd be funny if it was so damn sad. :)
"...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
I am feeling generous this evening and decided I would donate the first line of code to this
fine project. I relinquish all copyrights on the following line of code, feel free to do with
it as you wish.
#include "ie6.h"
Got Code?
You mean CoApp-ting ;)
<nazi style="xml">
You can't include attributes in a close tag. Also, you need quotes around the value of the attribute for it to be confirming XML.
</nazi>
&winkingsmiley;
How to write a question that isn't going to be answered, in 1 easy step.
What is Microsoft paying for human souls these days?
Well, ya see... with a five-digit slashdot-id I originally had "His name cannot be Spoken" as my name... then they did some database truncation about 12 or so years ago, and I lost some letters.
MySQL: Because your data probably wasn't that important anyway.
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