[LAU] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 10/11/2012 10:37 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 09:32 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> I also don't quite get what's the fun in having another distribution 
>> even if it comes prepackaged will all the latest gizmos. It's still a 
>> Linux distribution with all its dependencies, repositories and 
>> suchlike. Dunno if you noticed, but it's marketplaces and app stores 
>> what's trending today.
>
> So, finally the big closed source OS vendors wisened up to a package 
> management system (an android app is a zip file with a manifest and 
> the system makes sure it installs nicely and also uninstalls nicely - 
> a package, even the extension reflects that: APK - Android Package).. 
> The difference is that package management systems in the open source 
> world...
>
> a] ...also track dependencies
>
> b] ...focus heavily on free software
>

Oh, I forgot a big one:

c] ...mostly do not have a well defined revenue stream process..

Flo