[plug] Linux Desktop Market

[Alex Nordstrom]

Tuesday, 25 October 2005 13:21, John Knight wrote:
> I see the main hindrance being software installation, and my mates
> (who get me to install eveyrthing for them) agree with me. I see
> autopacakge as the future, or st least a proper and blatantly obvious
> way forward. Debian's religious leaders are kidding thmeselves, the
> PC world doesn't work from software repostiories, but from the
> ability to easily install 3rd party apps, like in the Mac and windoze
> world.

When we all start using software from untrusted sources, it won't be 
long before we're facing the same problems as MS Windows users.

Maybe the PC world doesn't work from software repositories, but that's 
precisely why it doesn't work.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
http://lx.n3.net/
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