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

[david]

Chris McCormick wrote:
> 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/>

Hmm, I see no need for 0install.net. If you're someone who can be 
allowed to install software on a system, what's so hard about remember 
root's password?

-- 
David
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