Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 07:28 UTC
Tomorrow, Ubuntu's second 'long-term support' release, 8.04 or Hardy Heron, will propagate its way through the list of mirrors. OSNews took a short look at the beta release of Hardy Heron a few weeks ago, and concluded that "All in all, this release packs some interesting new features and frameworks, some of which should have been part of any Linux distribution three years ago. It is quite clearly a beta though, and definitely not ready yet to be labeled as a 'long term support' release." In anticipation of the release, El Reg caught up with Mark Shuttleworth in London.
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2007-07-25
Dumping everything into one folder is not the answer. When Apple has more people developing for the Mac, and there is more of a reliance on core, shared components, then they'll see why that is. "
Well I see this perhaps from a different angle: if I want a packet that is NOT in the repository, how should this be installed? I don't want to have to add a new repository for each package I want to install (like seems to be the solution for ubuntu), and I don't want to be limited by what the repository maintainers says I should have access to. By downloading external packages these may or may not know what shared libraries (and versions) that are present on the target system (and here is the problem with different distros). Furthermore, spreading the files "all over the system" like many unixes does today is not very plesant when I want to remove or otherwise modify the stuff.
All I want is a system where I can download a single file from the vendors website and just click it and it works.