Star Blind or Deaf: Program Management on Modern Systems, II
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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RE[4]: Too bad you didn't like it
by uytvbn on Thu 25th Jun 2009 16:18 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Too bad you didn't like it"
uytvbn
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2009-06-25

We're talking about few megabytes here in a time when most harddrives are measured in terabytes. Applications take up a tiny fraction of my hard drive and most of the space in used by any significantly sized application is for stuff that cannot be shared between apps

I believe this way of thinking is behind a phenomenon known as Wirth's law.

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