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Month: May, 2008

Decentralized Brainstorm?

7 May, 2008 (22:14) | Ubuntu | 3 comments

I was thinking the other day about Brainstorm and upstream interaction. The fact is, lots of ideas belongs to upstream projects, so how should we help them to use these ideas?
Adding a new “software” field, and making something like [project_name].brainstorm.ubuntu.com would not require too much effort, but we can’t expect upstream projects to use […]

New ways to handle third party software installations

7 May, 2008 (21:44) | Ubuntu | 3 comments

At the moment, for an average user, it’s pretty hard to install third party software. Why?

The software is not shipped with the distribution package format : E.g. the software is bundled in tar.gz archives with custom command line installation scripts (such as the very new VIA Linux drivers).
When it is shipped with the distribution […]