Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 16:51 UTC, submitted by sjvn
Installing software on Linux. In the world of online minefields, this is the big one. Back in the day, you installed software on Linux by compiling it manually. Time-consuming, but assuming you had a decent knowledge of gcc, make, and maintaining library files, this could actually work. Later one came the package management systems that were supposed to make installing software on Linux a breeze: rpm, dpkg, and so on, and so forth. Since human beings have the innate tendency to assume that everyone else is wrong and only they are right, we are now stuck with 3453495 different Linux package managers. Denis Washington, a Fedora developer, is taking steps to resolve this issue.
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2006-03-23
companies want lives easier? then stop trying to control EVERYTHING, that shit just work in this world.
they need to release their stuff properly, this way, every distribution can package it as they please, plus users can just use a generic release if their distribution doesent carry the package..
theres really no great big mystic problem, its just that most people dont understand a flying f--k what they are talking about, and makes lame excuses because their software stinks.