Hello Linux users,
I think, for GNU/Linux to be really getting on to the Desktop/Home, the
software installtion/addition should be made more simple. For that, it should
go the binary way, which you not only don't have to compile/configure but are
also less in size. Most software have a source package for users to download
but only few have a binary option. Actually, there are much more users than
there are developers and so the first option for a download (for even Open
Source / Free Software) should be a binary package and could/should have a
source download option, which developers can use.
I downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 and was
delighted to find that they had provided the binaries inside the .tar.gz
package, which i just uncompressed to a folder and could start it right away.
(These two are great even before the 1.0 version! Hope they become still better
in version 1.0)
Similarly, I downloaded HTTrack latest version source packages and and
is still battling with them to get them to work. I'am positive that even
Balakrishnan Sir must have gone through atleast one source package which would
have shown error messages and not installed. But the difference is that he
would know what to do next to get it working, whereas I would have to accept it
as fate.
However the first source package I downloaded was GRUB and its
compiling part went on smoothly. But my subsequent compiling experiences
weren't that similar.
Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil
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