I'm about as far from Linux on the desktop as you can get, but I think
that's a little unfair.
It's no different from talking about .pkg or .msi files on Mac OS X or
Windows. Your mum might not be interested in the specifics but this is
technical list and so at times people are likely to talk about things
at a greater level of detail.
Cheers
Jonathan
On 4 Aug 2009, at 20:40, Richard Lockwood <[email protected]>
wrote:
Right. I think that sums it up. If I tell my Mum that, she'll look
at me as though I'm from Mars.
To be honest, as a non-Linux user, but experienced "computer" user, I
have no idea what the hell DEB or RPM are.
If that's the best sell you can do, it just demonstrates that desktop
Linux still isn't ready for the day to day computer user.
Cheers,
Rich.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrew
Bowden<[email protected]> wrote:
Most Linux software is now available in DEB or RPM format. There's
some
smaller packages that aren't, and commercial companies have a habit
of not
fitting in. But frankly most modern distros take an RPM and DEB
and know
exactly what to do with it so that the user need do little more
than click
on the file.
-
Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,
please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html
. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
-
Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please
visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
