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Cinnamon 1.4 released

Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 14:28 UTC (Tue) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Cinnamon 1.4 released by Cato
Parent article: Cinnamon 1.4 released

Most Linux distributions have had what essentially amounts to an »app store« years before Apple came up with the idea. All that is often missing is a snazzier web frontend – all the technical underpinnings are there and working.


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Cinnamon 1.4 released

Posted Mar 20, 2012 15:08 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

I don't agree - apps in app stores are quite separate to the platform and will never cause a cascading update of packages that can reach down into the desktop platform itself.

Ingo Molnar put it best: https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeF... - also the Ycombinator Hacker News discussion is quite good.

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