We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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Member since:2009-02-19
I installed Google Desktop Search on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 machine, and it basically went like a Windows install. Google bundled all the depenacies with the app, so it created a folder like /opt/google/ (or whatever it was) and put all it's binaries -- and all the libraries it needed to run -- in that folder.
The whole dependency-resolution issue doesn't have to come up; distributors could do exactly what google -- and Adobe, I'll bet -- did and just bundle the dependencies with their binaries, and it would work. The reason linux software distribution is done the way it is is because it's more efficient when it works, not because it absolutely has to be.
Just to point that out: I know the dependencies-and-packages model does pose real problems for proprietary software distributors. But they're not quite as insoluble as people are trying to make them out to be.
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How is it that Adobe can't do what OpenOffice and Mozilla can do easily?
Mozilla is Open Source and allways will be people willing to compile it for every damn distro and with regards for every shitty revision of every shitty library or layer. "
Being Open Source is unrelated.
Take another example: UT2003. Runs everywhere, with one single set of binaries.