[linux-audio-user] OT: FUD or not? what is your opinion?

[Chris McCormick]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:38:56AM -1000, david wrote:
> Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> 
> >reach even half of the intended audiences (look at the recent Slashdot
> >coverage on the future of Linux installers which tells a sad story how
> >autopackage, despite its arguably superior model never took off).
> 
> Autopackage - arguably superior? Not in my experience. I use an 
> application that uses Autopackage. My first discovery was that 
> *autopackage simply didn't work.* After a couple of fixes, they got it 
> to work. Whoopee!! My reaction to that was "Why?" From my use, 
> autopackage didn't do anything more, or anything better, than the 
> existing Debian package managers already did ...

Zero-install makes an interesting case for itself.

<http://0install.net/>

Best,

Chris.

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