Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 21:32 UTC, submitted by Flatland_Spider
The Linux Foundation has posted the second half of its long and thorough interview with Linux founder Linus Torvalds, part of the Foundation's 'open voices' podcast. While the first part of the interview focused on the Linux development community, this time Torvalds sounds off on everything from patents and innovation to the future of Linux. According to Torvalds the reason Linux hasn't taken off is that most people are happy with the way things are. "If you act differently from Windows, even if you act in some ways better, it doesn't matter; better is worse if it's different." Torvalds also attributes much of the frustration with Windows Vista to this same idea. In other words, it's not that Vista is worse than XP, but it's different and that causes distress among users.
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2005-08-07
Funny you should say that, it was Fedora 7! One of the reasons it was so frustrating to me was because in the past when I had no personal connection to the internet for awhile I was able to download entire directories of RPMs to supplment my Fedora 1 or Fedora 3 install... I actually managed to get a working system that I used on a day to day basis for over a month or so that way. I couldn't understand why it was giving this kind of crap now, given how easy it had been then.
I guess by what you're saying this is a known issue with Fedora 7 then?
better of for worse RPM was chosen to be the package format for the LSB standard. The important thing is
that there is only one packaging format used by all distros.
However, a standardized package format is not enough, to make Linux attractive to software venders there must also be some kind of standard naming scheme so that you have some idea what a package named XYZ actually contains, unless of course we design some even better package management system that some way actually checks what's in a package on file as well as library method level.
Yeah, I agree with you 100%! Disclaimer--so long as my preferred format wins and becomes the standard...oh wait... Heh...all joking aside, I was a bit disappointed to see how little progress was made in Autopackage over the years.
--bornagainpenguin