Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Posted Aug 8, 2009 15:33 UTC (Sat) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by ikm
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
> With Mozilla, that's actually not true. Go to the download page and see
> that what you get there is essentially a precompiled binary. Untar it and
> run it.
> that what you get there is essentially a precompiled binary. Untar it and
> run it.
Right, so why is Ubuntu shipping that binary rather than leaving it up to the user to get it for themselves?
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