Hi :) It doesn't really work out that way. Mostly every distro fits neatly into 1 of about 8 main families and even different families only have minor differences between the way they do things.
With package management there are only about 4 main different ways. If you look at one good example, Adobe Reader http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ The top drop-down shows, for; * Windows, 7 different downloads. One for each of 7, Vista, Xp and so on * Mac, 4 different downloads * Linux, 1, well 4 when you look at the bottom drop-down but of those 1 is deb and another is a tarball so that is just 1 really * Solaris, 2 * Android, 1 So it's really not the case that there needs to be hundreds for Gnu&Linux even tho that is often used as the excuse for not even offering 1. If hardware manufacturers didn't mind producing 1 OpenSource driver then it would cover all the different Gnu&Linux families, Solaris, Android, Bsd and Macs. Plus being OpenSource would mean that it could be updated faster if malware exploits were found. So the simple answer to "Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution?" is No. And at the moment we don't have a separate package for each one anyway. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 8/4/12, Faldegast <[email protected]> wrote: I don't really think it is impossible to gather all that under one roof. However I tend to think that perhaps we have to much in the distributions. Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution? A common packaging of common apps should simplify a lot. <snip /> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
