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CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy
ihaque writes "A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with dependency version hell. He's got binaries, source code, and a screencast up. Looks to be really useful for large cluster/cloud deployments as well as program sharing. Says Guo, 'CDE is a tool that automatically packages up the Code, Data, and Environment involved in running any Linux command so that it can execute identically on another computer without any installation or configuration. The only requirement is that the other computer have the same hardware architecture (e.g., x86) and major kernel version (e.g., 2.6.X) as yours. CDE allows you to easily run programs without the dependency hell that inevitably occurs when attempting to install software or libraries. You can use CDE to allow your colleagues to reproduce and build upon your computational experiments, to quickly deploy prototype software to a compute cluster, and to submit executable bug reports.'"
Making Linux easier for the masses is always a good thing.
+1 obvious, but it's as simple as this to make something more popular. The easier it is to use the more people who will use it.
To more quickly prepare software for easily installation.....
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
No! I'm not going back! I'M NOT going BACK! MOTIF IS DEAD TO ME!
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
You mean like the registry ....
[ducks outa the way]
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
Yeah, and I was wondering why anyone else would even want to take that acronym and the memories of revulsion it evokes in those of us who were forced to use it for any length of time. CDE is right up there with SCO for how quickly it makes me recoil in horror, evoking memories of clunky motif controls and single-threaded inconsistent desktop environment. If you long for the halcyon days of Windows 3.0, give CDE a try, it's just what you're looking for!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
I'm unfamiliar with this 'CDE' but you're compelling me to try it.