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- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+71Why put this in the Linux section if it is for Windows?
- JonLatane, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Written in Pascal? Seriously? I mean, I guess if it works...
- KniteWulf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Does it have win-get moo?
- winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25Because it would have been buried over there.
- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24Better put all OS X news in Linux/Unix then, since OS X is a derivate of Unix.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -7/+27apt-get install wubi && wubi --automatic && rm -rf /windows/C
sudo !! - Chernevog, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22I use this at LAN parties to deploy games to clients... one big whiteboard telling them where to get the installs from my own repository. Took a bit to set up but the last 3 LAN parties ran much more smoothly than people screaming where are all the IP's for the shares!!!.
- Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Actually, Linux people are at least $100 richer than Windows people.
- archer75, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Where the hell do I get this free beer?
- helheim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Just made my "i_reinstalled_my_windows_yet_again.bat"
win-get sinstall acrobat_reader
win-get sinstall ad-aware
win-get sinstall avg_antivirus
win-get sinstall DeepBurner
win-get sinstall firefox
win-get sinstall flash_player
win-get sinstall vlc_player
win-get sinstall gimp
win-get sinstall google_earth
win-get sinstall google_talk
win-get sinstall python
win-get sinstall picasa
win-get sinstall subversion
win-get sinstall skype
win-get sinstall utorrent
win-get sinstall thunderbird
win-get sinstall winrar - dhbanes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14hrmm.... sudo win-get linux?
- PARAPA, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16I don't know whether that's sarcasm or sheer stupidity
- eean, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Well it means the project will die if the original author ever stops.
- JoyrexJ9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Nice, really nice.
First time in ages to find something useful on digg. wow! - thefezman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10At least it wasn't written in VB... (I'm a VB programmer btw).
- tdgx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10And just a few weeks ago I was setting up a new dual-boot machine with XP and Ubuntu and thought how Windows needed something like this to speed up installation of applications. Ubuntu took about an hour to be working with a full suite of apps, XP took about four.
Dugg for the time this will save in the future. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Some people like bondage and discipline so Pascal isn't a problem.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8This is Windows we're talking about. sudo is implied no matter who you're logged in as.
- EricAnderton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Smart. LAN parties can be a real cluster-fsck if someone doesn't put on the Admin hat. Bravo for making it quick and painless.
//Fondly remembers a day when it was all about 10base-T networking, IPX, Mountain Dew and Starcraft + Quake all night long.
////Does not fondly recall setting up *everyone's* network configuration. - jamangold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7How is the creation of an install program for free (beer) software "sucking Microsoft's dick"? Does it install Office or Vista on your computer? Granted, this program is borrowing its concept from apt-get, but please don't tell me that there is a Linux distribution that has not borrowed any ideas or concepts from Windows. I think this guy's on to something. Like it or not, the vast majority of computer users in the world use Windows. A tool like this could introduce more of these people to more free (both beer and freedom) software that they wouldn't have heard of before. I just installed a great little program called artrage, that was introduced to me my this app. This is definitely a work in progress, but this program has great potential, and I don't think the developer is sucking anybody's dick.
- tomhung, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9i use the profile feature to reinstall my config from box to box. sweetness.
even without the profile feature i can rebuild a box and add all my apps in no time. - KniteWulf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I am greatly disappointed. There is no win-get moo.
- osarhan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8ha! I get it!
- drimo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Register an account on the site, then setup your frequent applications through your profile, then just use "win-get restore" and you don't even need a .bat script!
- cdmarcus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The only problem being that deleting the C drive removes Wubi as well, but I understand your sentiment.
- hobophobe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Also, replace winrar with 7zip at your leisure (unless there's some functionality I'm not aware of that winrar offers over 7zip?)
- osarhan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9now thats need know information!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Worthless:
C:>win-get search pr0n
Using Repository: http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/winget1.php
No matching results found. - Noctem, on 10/10/2007, -7/+12Is that why every single WINE release ends up on the front page?
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It seems handy enough for a download utility. If it included a scheduler with auto-update for all the software, then you'd really have something spiffy. A lot of that could probably be done with some clever scripting. As it stands, it would be more appropriate for someone who wanted to group it with a small batch file that grabbed all the stuff they want a system to have right after a clean format.
- shuffle2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5no....only free as in beer programs.
- pagefaultca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Half the packages are outdated, and my project (zsnes) isn't even spelled properly, it's listed as znes.
- PueSi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+47zip does multi-filed RAR's
- xswag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The computer tower is referred to as a "Box".
- rb780nm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4nothing wrong with pascal - it was the first language I ever compiled anything on (c64 basic before that, but I don't think I knew how to compile, if that was even an option).
I still work i fortran77 (well, really f90, but its all f77 code - very rarely do I use anything parallel or anything)
Old languages are still around because they work - maybeway36, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Fought? No, we fought the windows terminal because it's terrible. The Unix terminal is great.
- ernasty10050, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8wish i could delete comments...
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4How is putting a Windows app in the Linux section any better than burying it? I think you forget there is SOFTWARE section here that is platform-agnostic. Linux users should post cross-platform Linux-derived apps there so that someone other than Linux users might actually learn of their existence.
- daniel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3RTA. Using the install switch runs the install in normal mode. However, using "sinstall" makes it run in silent mode.
- IntellEJent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3For you Mac users, Fink (http://finkproject.org) is very similar. :-)
- KniteWulf, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Welcome to the blocklist, bitch.
- z0rz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I fixed your typos/unnecessary inclusions for you. Here you go:
win-get sinstall Foxit_PDF_Reader
win-get sinstall DeepBurner
win-get sinstall firefox
win-get sinstall flash_player
win-get sinstall vlc_player
win-get sinstall gimp
win-get sinstall google_earth
win-get sinstall pidgin
win-get sinstall python
win-get sinstall picasa
win-get sinstall subversion
win-get sinstall skype
win-get sinstall utorrent
win-get sinstall 7zip - shifty2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4a little from column A and little from column B...
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Automatic updates for all your programs?
- ScreaminIke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3lets say that that dependency is for a different liblame0 than i have... so you go and autopackage the NEW liblame0, and cripple my audacity? no... that's ok. i'll stick w/apt-get. with gdebi, debian packages become like what you want. sudo apt-get install gdebi. use it. ;)
- EricAnderton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Hey look, Windows is one step closer to being as *flexible* as linux. That's not new.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Don't know why you are being dugg down. Pascal was an awful choice. Extensibility is not a feature of Pascal.
- ernasty10050, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So...this doesn't update anything. It's good for installing new programs. Great.
- genotrance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3There's a bunch of other solutions for this problem including one I've created.
AppSnap - http://appsnap.genotrance.com/ (personal plug)
Wpkg - http://wpkg.org/
Windows Package Manager - http://www.winpackman.org/
InstallPad - http://www.installpad.com/ - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Well VB might be awful but it doesn't chain you down and beat the crap into you until you do all your work the way it wants you to. Pascal isn't a nice language, far too restrictive, coding in it feels like being crushed under a heavy boot.
Also it's insanely weird. A 20 integer array is of different type to a 19 integer array, it means you can't write things like generic sort functions for even arrays of the same type. If you want to sort an array of size x you have to write a function that receives an array of size x. Compare this to Python or Lisp where just about anything where comparisons are meaningful can be sorted by the same function (with Lisp you can pass your own comparison function too). -
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