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posted by LaminatorX on Monday September 01 2014, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the puttering-about dept.

Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:53PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @05:53PM (#88579) Journal

    Oops, posted instead of previewing.

    Last sentence of second paragraph: "My only hope is they distill the package install process to OSX, have a" should have read:
    My only hope is they make package management as simple as OSX. Seriously OSX does that one basic task right because it is as simple as can be. It feels more more like the Unix way. No scattering files all over creation, no idiotic registry entries, no goofy installers and uninstallers, or package managers. Installing a package is drag and drop. The application list in Finder is analogous to your bin or program files directory. The folder icon is pulled from inside the directory automatically and clicking on the folder launches the program. So in essence you just double click the programs directory to run it. Perfectly simple. A Linux package should be a tar.gz that in uncompressed to /user/apps/ or ~/apps/. Then you simply double click it to run. The GUI menu just needs to search those two directories to populate its program list. To categorize them you make a directory tree with links, the Unix way.

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