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- nosg, on 11/09/2009, -0/+18Nice update. Congrats to the GetDeb team.
- RPGmaster, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10I <3 GetDeb
One of the first things I do with a fresh install is going there to get Ubuntu Tweak and Songbird. :) - Frostek, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Awesome idea. :-)
I will be adding that, just as soon as the site recovers from the Digg effect! :-( - PatrickBrown, on 11/10/2009, -0/+6Why not just use a rolling release distro if you want the newest software without waiting?
For example, I use Arch Linux and I get the software on the day of or day after it is released from the official distro repos. - TheSerpentor, on 11/10/2009, -0/+5apt get install Dragon Age ad
- dsn0wman, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Is this kind of like taking all the PPA's and putting them in 1 repo?
- oobuntu, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3if i understand your point correctly, wouldn't you end up having, say 5 copies of openssl libraries on your system after installing dovecot, ssh, apache, joe's small app, etc? then what happens if there is a security issue with ssl? you can't just patch the system library because you have all these other applications using their own ones. it would be a security and administrative nightmare.
- sloppychris, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Wait 5 months. :)
- depro9, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3Oh hell yes win win win win win! :D
- CircleFusion, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3This is their other website for games
http://www.playdeb.net - WiseGuy1020, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Not much in there I would want to add, especially if you are running Karmic.
- ptFoe, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2another useful site for Ubuntu users that want the latest versions of applications is this:
PPA search
http://ppa-search.appspot.com/ - WiseGuy1020, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Good point.
- yanguang, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2I would be celebrating this if I could just get my Karmic Koala back on my wonky, half-dead hard-drive.
- paulsmith288, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1aptitude purge dragon age ad
- PinkyTheWinky, on 11/10/2009, -1/+2Not entirely true. In Windows you often use static compilation or distribute the libs with your application, so in no way is everything there that you need. There also aren't windows distributions so you can't really compare. I don't like the way Linux manages packages. It always breaks at some point. PC-BSD got it right with PBI, which basically distributes the shared libs with the applications.
- pyrates, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Doesn't look like u'd end up with 5 copies of the same shared library, since the package would all require the same version of the library. And if there was an update, the maintainer of the shared library would update it, not the maintainers of each of those applications.
And my point about distros having standard libraries that aren't changed was to emulate the same environment that the one version of windows provides for developers. This makes it predictable for developers in that they know the development environment their app will work in and will then know that when they compile it once, it will work across those distros that follow the above standard. - dootzky, on 11/11/2009, -0/+0awesome! i love DEB!
- pyrates, on 11/10/2009, -3/+3And this wouldn't be needed if linux distributions had a standard set of libraries that only changed when there is a new release from the maintainers of those libraries. If a distro customizes these libraries, then you have to compile the application against that distro. And with all linux distros doing this, there is no such thing as compile once run everywhere, which windows does have.
- zomgorly, on 11/09/2009, -9/+2I wonder if anyone is going to use this to release a linux trojan.
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