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CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy

Posted by timothy on from the namespace-collision dept.

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.'"

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  1. Next up, the Flash Transport Packager by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 3, Funny

    To more quickly prepare software for easily installation.....

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
    The purpose of that site was not known.
  2. I almost started screaming by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 3, Funny

    No! I'm not going back! I'M NOT going BACK! MOTIF IS DEAD TO ME!

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    Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
    Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
  3. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.