Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jun 2009 12:24 UTC, submitted by ralsina
OSNews, Generic OSes There are a lot of people who believe that program and application management is currently as good as it gets. Because the three major platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac OS X - all have quite differing methods of application management, advocates of these platforms are generally unwilling to admit that their methods might be flawed, leading to this weird situation where over the past, say, 20 years, we've barely seen any progress in this area. And here we are, with yet another article submitted to our backend about how, supposedly, Linux' repository method sucks or rules.
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by jacquouille on Wed 24th Jun 2009 12:40 UTC
jacquouille
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2006-01-02

"over the past, say, 20 years, we've barely seen any progress in this area"

oh, _come on_. 20 years ago, apt-get didn't exist.

Edited 2009-06-24 12:41 UTC

RE: progress
by ralsina on Wed 24th Jun 2009 12:49 in reply to "progress"
ralsina Member since:
2007-08-14

Or app bundles, for that matter (almost).

Bundles came to OSX from NeXT. NeXT shipped its first model in September 18 1989.

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RE[2]: progress
by tupp on Wed 24th Jun 2009 18:11 in reply to "RE: progress"
tupp Member since:
2006-11-12

I hope that you are not implying that NeXT/Steve Jobs invented App "bundles."

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