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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)Posted Jan 4, 2012 23:33 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions) by bronson Parent article: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)
> An effort to produce a nicely-integrated set of extensions could succeed, especially if curated by a popular distribution. In fact, that would be excellent.
I don't know what retreating to distribution-specific installers is going to achieve over a installation method that is trivially easy to use, can be used by anybody using any distribution, and can be curated in any way that is meaningfully useful.
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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions) Posted Jan 5, 2012 17:53 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Distributions integrate things nicely. They research, curate, stabilize, and distribute (install) software, a job most users don't care to do themselves.
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