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Posted Aug 8, 2012 16:24 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Day: GNOME OS by cmccabe
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Seems that he thinks it's much easier task to accomplish if they didn't have to deal with Linux apt/rpm style updates.


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Day: GNOME OS

Posted Aug 9, 2012 8:31 UTC (Thu) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]

True, but they decided that getting into the app stores made the additional engineering costs acceptable.

They could have avoided the issues by going the route of a stand-alone installer but obviously found it more viable to do it the other way.

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