Small problem for Linux ? Sure. Big problem for Linux user? Of course. [LWN.net]

Small problem for Linux ? Sure. Big problem for Linux user? Of course.

Posted Jul 9, 2009 15:48 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Small problem for Linux ? Sure. Big problem for Linux user? Of course. by elanthis
Parent article: Google Chrome OS and the community

> anybody who needs to do more than run a web browser and email client and word processor (which is a far, far greater percentage of users than the Linux desktop advocates continually claim [...]) simply can't use Linux because the repositories don't include the software they want

So a typical Linux repository holds only web browsers, email clients and word processors, that is all? I agree with most of your (very good) post, except for this exaggeration above.

You are right that anything happening outside of repositories is a nightmare. So maybe the future of Linux software distribution is just "more repositories". See for instance this: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads or this: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Performing such automated re-compilation and packaging is possibly easier than ensuring portability across multiple Windows versions.

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