Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jul 2005 11:55 UTC, submitted by Swank1
Are there too many Linux distributions currently available? Can there be too many? This article explores the effect of the large number of distros out right now and suggests that progress could possibly be made through a consolidation.
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I was installing some autopackage things yesterday (from their own site) and:
- 2 of them were corrupt (dunno why. tried downloading again, and same md5, so I downloaded well)
- another one of them said I didn't have something and bailed out, instead of installing it
- and another one installed normally, but when I tried to run it, one of the dependencies wasn't present (gosh i love those missing lib xpto.o.1 errors), and so it didn't work
Those who did work installed two menu items on my kde menu for each app (on the same place).
Ah! And i've seen a demo of autopackage and it's gtk gui, but why did I get autopackage with a mix of gtk and shell gui?
Autopackage seems very interesting, but it seems to me it needs a bit of work. Or maybe I was just unlucky.