![]() ![]() Well, so far the examples you provided above and my own experience in doing so don’t seem to support your case that somehow packaging software for Linux systems is inherently “hard”. ![]() At what cost? A little wasted disk space. ![]() All Official SDKs that make sure the end user and developer never have to put of with this. Android? iOS, Mac OSX, Windows, Blackberry, etc. Your software doesn’t use the latest version of everything? oh well, none of those old dependencies are supported anymore. However, you can always download the latest pre-built 64-bit Linux tarball from – just dusted off my old Mint system to try it and it worked flawlessly. Don’t know how old that is, I couldn’t be bothered to track that down, so perhaps it’s pretty old. The latest stable release of Gimp is one point release above that (2.8.8), hardly what you’d call “severely out of date” (unless you update your software by physical age instead of by features).Īs for Blender, the version in Ubuntu is 2.66 whereas the latest pre-built binaries I could find were 2.69. the most up to date before the release of Ubuntu 13.10. The latest version of Gimp I see in the Ubuntu repos is 2.8.6 from, i.e. Last time I checked gimp and blender were severely out of date in ubuntu’s repository The trick is pretty simple: bring everything you need with you, exactly as you said below. Worth it? Clearly.Ĭitrix is commercial software so the community doesn’t care and instead wants them to do more work because they’re clearly entitled to tell a business what to do.Īre you saying Citrix doesn’t know how to package binary software in a redistributable manner? I’ve got binaries of my (GNUstep) app that were built on a Debian-derived distro over 6 years ago and run just fine on the latest Slackwares. Need something that wasn’t put in a repository, like the latest version of makehuman or Citrix? Better figure out how to manage those dependencies yourself since no one bothered to fix the errors with make human dependencies, and Citrix is commercial software so the community doesn’t care and instead wants them to do more work because they’re clearly entitled to tell a business what to do. Linux: Hopefully someone in the community bothered to repackage the latest version and upload it to the distro’s repository, and last time I checked gimp and blender were severely out of date in ubuntu’s repository. “Both rpm and deb systems”, android one package, all devices, no dependencies to manage. P.P.P.S.: And the next version of Windows Phone will turn things around for Microsoft’s share of mobile market – Nelson can’t be wrong… □ P.P.S.: Ironically, if desktop Linux was growing with the pace of Android back in the days of Symbian dominance, it would hurt Microsoft much more. It may even be that Microsoft is OK with loosing desktop market to mobile as long as its office monopoly remains unchallenged. And piracy is also of no concern on mobile side of things. I’m not particularly sure whether Microsoft indeed is loosing anything in terms of financial result. It’s less money per item, but lower risks and expences and larger market compensate for that. P.S.: bear in mind, that when you buy an Android device, you also pay for a Windows Phone license, albeit not getting one. While Intel also seems to make more money outside mass consumer market, the proportion isn’t as favorable for Intel as it is for Microsoft. The server part of Intel’s business is only growing, but the mass consumer market – the one Intel had in its pocket recently – is about to vanish (according to some, at least). In the meantime Intel gets its money from x86 hardware. (Or may be even cut Microsoft’s expences on desktop OS R&D). Loosing home market will make Microsoft less comfortable, but won’t do much beyond that. The only purpose the whole thing serves is to show that Intel’s hardware is capable of running Android via virtualization more efficiently then commodity tablets do natively.Īctually, the trend with PC market is more of a problem for Intel then for any software vendor: Microsoft earns most of its money with Office and server products, and it only needs to hold enough of PC market to keep the main products dominant (eg. This is a clear message that the Windows-centric computing age is nearing the end.Īctually this message is not about the fate of Windows-centric computing (which took a hit for home market already), but more about Intel’s imagination. ![]()
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