On 04/10/10 05:51, Programmer In Training wrote:
> On 04/09/10 21:54, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
>> Now ... that is just way too much time for me. If I want an application,
>> I want to find it and install it within a minute.
>
>
> I really think that's asking for a lot. Phones and desktop compute
On 04/09/10 21:54, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Now ... that is just way too much time for me. If I want an application,
> I want to find it and install it within a minute.
I really think that's asking for a lot. Phones and desktop computers are
two totally different platforms. To expect the same be
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jamie wrote:
> > I do understand the problem. The open source Unix community is so
> > diverse -- so many platforms, so many APIs, so many different developer
> > environments, so many opinions, and little money incentive.
>
> For cross platform, there is "pkgsrc" you might
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:27:55PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Well why can't we have this for open source Unix for desktop users?
>
> I assume all these apps are designed to fit a certain mold, are based on
> a consistent API, maybe using common templates, most have a standard
> interface, e
(I am not an iphone user. I did have a sidekick 2 which had a small
store to browse and install software applications with. And I have a
Nokia phone. But I installed third-party software manually by searching
for software via google.)
My nine-year-old asks me if I have some software to install
