AutoPackaging for Linux 623
Isak Savo writes "The next generation packaging format for Linux has reached 1.0. With Autopackage officially declared stable, there is now an easy way for developers to create up to date, easy installable packages. There are lots of screenshots available including a flash demo of a package installation."
DIE FANBOY MODS (Score:4, Funny)
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...
"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."
"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and
"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."
"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH
"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -09 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."
"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"
Re:The purpose of autopackage (Score:5, Funny)
All Your Bandwidth Are Belong To Us.
One Autopackage... (Score:3, Funny)
Too little, too late (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The purpose of autopackage (Score:4, Funny)
Crap! *now* what do I do?!?!?
Where Can I... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't know about this (Score:1, Funny)
Hooray! Linux is done! On to Duke Numem Forever!
Re:Wrong Paradigm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Some FAQ entries (Score:3, Funny)
But I thought that was our national policy. Certainly seems that way historically.
Re:Clarify a point for me please (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting criticism of the OSX DMG (Score:3, Funny)
- Valid signature from 92429807C9853C0744A68B9AAE07828059A53CC1
Do you want to trust all of these keys to sign interfaces?
Not unless you're prepared to ask me this question every time you download and run anything off the net.