> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:38:39 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
> 
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:04, Faldegast <email address hidden> wrote:
> > perhaps we have to much in the distributions.
> > Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution?
> > A common packaging of common apps should simplify a lot.
> 
> Yes, that would indeed help. But which one of the existing is the best
> packaging system? Probably there have been already hundreds of
> discussions about that...

There virtually no difference between them and there are build systems 
that generate both .rpm and .deb packages. The simple solution therefore
 is to chose both.



There are some difference between the distibutions and their policies. 
For example fedora/rpm have a "no conflict" policy where debian/ubuntu 
lets the user resolve conflicts. Yum just fail when there is conflicts 
between multiple repos, which can be solved with yum priorities which 
automatically resolves the conflict by choosing the package from the 
most prioritized repo. This makes yum more suitable for scripted updates
 - and is as far as I can see the only difference in functionality.



However my vote goes for using a build system that support both deb and rpm and generate both apt and yum repositories.

> 
> 
> > Windows is slow, heavy and "bloated" because it is monolithic and not
> > optimized. [...]
> > The MinWin team is improving on this but it will take time....
> 
> For sure, M$ will not sleep. Linux community should also look ahead. -
> I am confident.

Microsoft is probably very aware of any advantage that the Linux community has, and makes plans on how to nullify those advantages. MinWin is such a project and is a requirement for making a neat package-able operating system. MSI packgages are nice, but has far less functionality then .deb/.rpm. It does not have a prowerful way to handle dependencies or update repositories. I am sure Microsoft knows this but before MinWin is complete they have no use of such package management because they will have to build blobs anyway.

The Linux community should also look ahead and I think the best way to do that is the common repos. When we can focus all resources on one repo we will free all those resources that goes into building multiple versions of everything and can use that time for other awesomeness.

Also i think we should focus on one single desktop environment and I think we are currently going that way. When KDE and Gmome went useless I turned to LXDE which suffer from slow development. When Qt Desktop came around i switched to that and stayed. Its development cycle are short and I really think it will fill the void of what KDE and Gnome used to be. However it will take months or years before we really know if that's gonna happen.

Remember that the Windows FOSS community have a single desktop environment - LiteStep.

> 
> Best regards, Martin.
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> Title:
>   Microsoft has a majority market share
> 
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>   New
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>   In Progress
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> 
> Bug description:
>   Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
>   This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
> 
>   Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
>   restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
>   limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
>   potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
> 
>   Steps to repeat:
> 
>   1. Visit a local PC store.
> 
>   What happens:
>   2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
>   3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
> 
>   What should happen:
>   1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
>   2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
>   3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
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