Comments on: Firefox and Linux http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/ Fun and games with the politics of open source Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sveta http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-834 sveta Thu, 31 May 2007 20:59:42 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-834 I%2Bbrowse%2Band%2Bsaw%2Byou%2Bwebsite%2Band%2BI%2Bfound%2Bit%2Bvery%2Binteresting.Thank%2Byou%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bgood%2Bwork%252C%2Bgreetings I%2Bbrowse%2Band%2Bsaw%2Byou%2Bwebsite%2Band%2BI%2Bfound%2Bit%2Bvery%2Binteresting.Thank%2Byou%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bgood%2Bwork%252C%2Bgreetings

]]> By: Helga http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-833 Helga Mon, 21 May 2007 09:24:09 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-833 Excellent+site+%2D+do+keep+up+the+good+work.0 Excellent+site+%2D+do+keep+up+the+good+work.0

]]> By: John A. Bilicki III http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-832 John A. Bilicki III Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:57:42 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-832 If I can't use nightly builds or for goodness sakes the latest stable version of Firefox on Linux I just won't use Linux. I'd like to though I'm not touching the console no matter how great anyone says it is and the same goes for non-savvy computer users. Get installers working, OSX even makes it as easy as dragging an icon a few dozen pixels to the right for it's installer. We love Linux and we love Firefox but as long as it remains a pain to simply install software we're not going to use it (just like Vista!) If I can’t use nightly builds or for goodness sakes the latest stable version of Firefox on Linux I just won’t use Linux. I’d like to though I’m not touching the console no matter how great anyone says it is and the same goes for non-savvy computer users. Get installers working, OSX even makes it as easy as dragging an icon a few dozen pixels to the right for it’s installer. We love Linux and we love Firefox but as long as it remains a pain to simply install software we’re not going to use it (just like Vista!)

]]> By: Nick http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-831 Nick Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:45:15 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-831 All about nutrizione All about nutrizione

]]> By: jmdesp http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-830 jmdesp Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:46:38 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-830 What about security fixes ? Caillon complained some time ago the current state was less than satisfactory for that, would be good to include some serious enhancement for that too so that distribution can do simultaneous (or near simultaneous) releases. What about security fixes ? Caillon complained some time ago the current state was less than satisfactory for that, would be good to include some serious enhancement for that too so that distribution can do simultaneous (or near simultaneous) releases.

]]> By: James http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-829 James Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:46:03 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-829 Sorry if this not quite on topic but... What about the Autopackage idea for cross-distro support? as in Bug#277066 Sorry if this not quite on topic but…

What about the Autopackage idea for cross-distro support? as in Bug#277066

]]> By: tr http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-828 tr Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:25:52 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-828 "[...] and will make available reference builds for each release in an unsupported form." Does that mean that there won't be any supported non-distro-specific versions anymore? The way I use Linux distros is by choosing to install a few heavily used programs in a "vanilla" version as user. At the moment these are Openoffice.org, Eclipse and Firefox/Thunderbird or Seamonkey. All the other programs are managed with the distro specific package manager. The mozilla products and Eclipse work very well this way. Openoffice.org has the annoying habit to only release as RPMs which makes installation as a user an annoying "alien -t *.rpm" and untarring orgy. “[...] and will make available reference builds for each release in an unsupported form.”

Does that mean that there won’t be any supported non-distro-specific versions anymore? The way I use Linux distros is by choosing to install a few heavily used programs in a “vanilla” version as user. At the moment these are Openoffice.org, Eclipse and Firefox/Thunderbird or Seamonkey. All the other programs are managed with the distro specific package manager.

The mozilla products and Eclipse work very well this way. Openoffice.org has the annoying habit to only release as RPMs which makes installation as a user an annoying “alien -t *.rpm” and untarring orgy.

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://snarkfest.net/blog/2006/12/04/firefox-and-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Jesse Ruderman Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:30:24 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=96#comment-827 What effect will this change have on branch lifetimes? What effect will this change have on branch lifetimes?

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