On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote:
To bring UNIX to the masses one of the first things we need to do is
make installing and running apps easy. Right now we are in what once
was called "DLL Hell" in windows 3.x, is this the best we can do? Hard
drive space is a non issue today so what is wrong with making fat
binaries that that have all the dependencies compiled into one file.
Another apple idea is making the binaries platform independent so it
will run on an i386, ppc, sparc, etc. This is the biggest problem I
have with UNIX.
Step 1: Download the app from developer foo's website.
Step 2: Double click on the app.
Step 3: The app launches and the dam thing just works.
What is so hard about this guys?
Anyways... here's a cool video from back in the day, 1991 (DOS 5.0 and
windows 3.0 in microsoft's timeline), with steve jobs demoing
NeXTSTEP. Microsoft's windows still can't do some of the stuff they
where doing back in 91. It a quicktime video btw:
http://www.openstep.se/jobs/
Is there any wonder that the people who have already brought "Unix"
to the masses is Steve Jobs and the historical descendent to OpenStep
(NEXTStep) -- Mac OS X?
Most of what is described above exists in OS X already.
Chad
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