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"how about encapsulated applications a-la-OSX? (Who the heck wants pieces of applications scattered all over the file system. With 500 gig drives on the desktop, who cares if a 20 mb library is duplicated a couple times)"

Who the heck wants duplicate files scattered all over the file system? If you know a library is going to be in a certain place on the system, you can code an application to use that library and make the application smaller.

20MB might not be a lot on a 500GB hard drive, but it increases the download time or reduces the space on a CD/DVD.

"How about binary compatibility across versions and distros"

I'd rather have the program/distro take advantage of all the features of my processor, rather than only those it's inherited from its 386 ancestor.
Posted by: thunderdome1   Posted on: 04/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Why?  nucrash | 04/04/06
This will NOT make the two interfaces more similar.  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
can't handle a complicated GUI  xuniL_z | 04/04/06
Pointless random rant (nt)  thunderdome1 | 04/05/06
This is great, choice with compatibility!!  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
Choice is great...  xuniL_z | 04/04/06
Who are you speaking for?  thunderdome1 | 04/05/06
KDE sucks  pa2004 | 04/04/06
The reality of the situation is that KDE will be around for somt time, we  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
No way  Tim Patterson | 04/04/06
Sigh. Please don't get into KDE vs GNOME  mosborne | 04/04/06
Finally!!!  xuniL_z | 04/04/06
It's not the Linux users who have a problem being open minded..  nomorems | 04/04/06
RE: It's not the Linux users who have a problem being open minded..  richdave | 04/04/06
My favorite is GNOME, but, I want applications to be compatible between  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
Don't make me laugh  ITTech001 | 04/04/06
No, all people being forced to do the same thing does NOT lead to inovation  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
I know where you are coming from  ITTech001 | 04/04/06
It's called competition  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/04/06
The car analogy is not correct  xuniL_z | 04/04/06
Not necessarily  mosborne | 04/04/06
Huh?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/04/06
Actually  mosborne | 04/04/06
Your opinion  Linux User 147560 | 04/04/06
And, why stop here, how about a compatibility layer for Windows so that  DonnieBoy | 04/04/06
For the last 3 years I have been developing  Hugh Jass | 04/04/06
About time  ITTech001 | 04/04/06
Your fixes aren't needed  thunderdome1 | 04/04/06
Hardly an attitude grow linux on the desktop  ITTech001 | 04/04/06
Binary compatibility  chemist109 | 04/04/06
So?  ITTech001 | 04/04/06
That wouldn't be an improvement  tommyhigbee | 04/04/06
Your attitude sucks too  thunderdome1 | 04/05/06
the OS.  xuniL_z | 04/04/06
Partially  thunderdome1 | 04/05/06
Don't fix what isn't broken...  chemist109 | 04/04/06
Ask me a hard one  Yagotta B. Kidding | 04/04/06
Competition remember, those who cried...  SouthernPride | 04/04/06
Blah blah blah  thunderdome1 | 04/05/06
The article has it wrong  dow@... | 04/04/06

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