On May 15, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
> You seriously had me at "I have no interest in convincing you."
>
> But then you tried.
No, I wasn't trying to convince anyone that Linux is easier. My
reason for that example was that I had asked for a concrete example of
his experience with a recent Linux distro that showed how it is "too
hard" for regular folks to use, so I felt that if I asked for such a
thing, I should at the very least do the same.
> Google Thunderbird, click Feeling Lucky button, download, run
> installer.
> Took me exactly 20 seconds and is something even my mom could have
> done on
> Windows and she rarely loads applications. No searching/finding the
> downloaded file (FireFox provides me a list of the downloads when I
> click in
> the download link). Unzip? Unzip what? You should have at least
> picked an
> app that followed the pain you described.
This was based on WinXP from about a year ago. Things may have
changed since then. That's my most recent experience installing
something commonly used by most people on Windows.
> This feature you described in Linux sounds cool. Will Fedora and
> Ubuntu
> automatically know about a custom app I develop, and where to
> download it?
If you package it and get it included in one of the common
repositories, yes. Otherwise, you have to specify the location where
the package lives. A 'package' is simply a file listing the components
to be installed, where to install them, any dependencies that the
installer should also install if missing, and some other simple
housekeeping.
-- Ed Leafe
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