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The future of packaging software in Linux

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:05 AM EST
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GNU/Linux is known for its diversity and freedom of choice. There are multiple window managers and desktop environments, many competing systems for handling sound, graphics and hardware autodetection. This diversity is the power and weakness of free software. Exactly the same problem concerns installing software in GNU/Linux.

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