AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere

Re:AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere by subway on Saturday February 27, 2016 @11:09AM (#11187475)

People making distos, as well as anyone who has been bitten by unreproducible binaries generated by hand-crafted/manually driven build processes.

When I install software from a distro, it's been vetted and I can safely assume the software has a sane reproducible build process, or at a minimum, has had a sane reproducible build process added by the package maintainer.

If a new standard wants to solve that process, I'm all for it, but I demand reproducibility (or somebody to hold financially reaponsible, in the case of closed source)in my software builds.

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Re:AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere by ForHackernews on Saturday February 27, 2016 @11:25AM (#11187510)

Nobody except weird Linux nerds and developers cares about any of the things you listed.

Normal people just want to click a link and have their app install and run.

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Re:AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere by ocean3 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @12:15PM (#11187690)

I don't why you are been down voted. Normal people would to download the s/w , install and run. As a developer sometimes i wish the same as well instead of hunting down dependencies.

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Re:AppImage: Linux apps that run anywhere by EdHominem on Saturday February 27, 2016 @03:52PM (#11188428)

Yes but the logical extension of that argument is that people don't care about food-safety because they don't know what e-coli is.

And that is true.

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