Star What Linux Will Look Like In 2012
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 15th Aug 2008 05:18 UTC
Linux InformationWeek is speculating on how Linux will change in the next four years. "By 2012 the OS will have matured into three basic usage models. Web-based apps rule, virtualization is a breeze, and command-line hacking for basic system configuration is a thing of the past."
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renhoek
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2007-04-29

That "something" is called a ".deb".


or rpm, yum, ebuild, tgz, pisi, mo, or one of the zillion other package types out there.

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WereCatf Member since:
2006-02-15

or rpm, yum, ebuild, tgz, pisi, mo, or one of the zillion other package types out there.

You don't use packages meant for Windows Mobile in Windows Vista, the same way you don't use packages meant for Red Hat in Ubuntu. Trying to twist the thing doesn't change it any better or worse. Use .deb in Ubuntu, that's all there is to know. Every distro has their own specific package format they use, if you download files with the correct extension then you can just double-click on it and have it installed.

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