Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows? (ZDNet)
Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows? (ZDNet)
Posted Mar 17, 2006 0:22 UTC (Fri) by jwb (guest, #15467)Parent article: Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows? (ZDNet)
The reader can extend the above article to understand why Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/) is a very poor idea and foreign to the core value of a Linux distribution.
Posted Mar 17, 2006 2:38 UTC (Fri)
by mcculls (guest, #34229)
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Posted Mar 17, 2006 3:09 UTC (Fri)
by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
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Except that autopackage allows patching of software not supported by your distro, which is better than no patching at all. It also means app developers can provide their own update channel without relying on the various distros.Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows? (ZDNet)
They can do that now by creating an apt or yum repository....Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows? (ZDNet)