#softwareDistribution

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-01

@Oleksii @robinsyl #ARM64 grows because #Intel and #AMD basically gave up delivering compareable computing power in the same thermal, electrical and price envelope.

  • See Z3735F (2,2W), N3010 (3W) & x5-E8000 (4W) having no successors of equally low TDP or even lower in production! The closest ist the i3-N300 (7W) and N95 (15W) respectably.

Add to it the rise of #SBCs like #RaspberryPi that further kicked the cost down in terms of basic computing and the big #Linux #community that welcomes cheap #hardware and does it's best to put it to good use.

It truly confirms @landley 's saying that #Innovation in Computing it actually trickling up and thus #tech gets moved from the #Desk to the #Rack to "the #Cloud"...

Obviously, I wished for truly #OpenSource'd #RISCv to take the place but that's about 5-25 years lagging behind #ARM due to #patents in many key technologies like #PowerSaving...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-11-18

@StarkRG And also #SinglePlayer #games can actually be played #offline and people can actually use #Steam for #IndieGames even on #EDGEland-style throttled, mobile Internet unlike the #XboxOne at launch...

  • Basically #Valve knows their customers VERY WELL and isn't friendly because of their "goodness of their own hearts" but because they need the goodwill of their #customers more than customers or #developers need Steam.

Similarly #SteamOS didn't get started because Valve "likes" #OpenSoure but because they saw #Windows8Bing and #Windows10S and realized that #Microsoft and #Apple trying to re-monopolize #SoftwareDistribution is an existential threat to the Company and they'll have to adapt or face extinction.

2025-11-14

Modern-day package systems solve some problems posed by classic formats like DEB and RPM. Andrea Ciarrocchi looks at Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap and describes how they differ
linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025
#PackageManager #Flatpak #AppImage #Snap #Linux #OpenSource #SoftwareDistribution #FOSS

Screenshot: Flathub is the best known Flatpak repository
apfeltalk :verified:apfeltalk@creators.social
2025-07-22

Apple verschickt versehentlich macOS Tahoe Public Beta – jetzt zurückgezogen
Die Veröffentlichung neuer Betriebssystemversionen ist für Beta-Tester:innen eine kritische Phase, in der unerwartete Fehler auftreten k
apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/appl
#Mac #News #Apple #BetaTest #Betriebssystem #BuildNummer #Fehler #MacOSSequoia #MacOSTahoe #PublicBeta #ReleaseCandidate #Rosetta2 #Softwaredistribution #Update

Sharlatansharlatan
2024-12-08

Is it some sort of tradition or feeling rebellion in development ignoring to apply semantic version on release? From about 550+ Common Lisp packages available in only a few have any sort of version tag, always wondered why.

git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix

Sandro Santilli 🪛 hackerstrk@floss.social
2024-07-31

Good information about distribution channels.

#SoftwareDistribution

breezy-weather/INSTALL.md at main · breezy-weather/breezy-weather
github.com/breezy-weather/bree

2024-06-17

The (un)solvable software package distribution problem on Linux - Nice Micro Monday 37

tilvids.com/videos/watch/f88c9

Robert Grimmapparebit
2023-07-07

You want to bundle a bunch of modules into a single, easy-to-distribute script? Tsutsumu got you covered: Lightweight, self-contained source bundles. Forget venv. Forget pip install. Just run it!

github.com/apparebit/tsutsumu

Daniel Aleksandersenda@daniel.priv.no
2023-07-06

“Package Exchange. Former Snap co-developer Alan Pope, who left Canonical in 2021 after 10 years with the company, has developed unsnap, a script that replaces snaps with Flatpaks where available.” — Ferdinand Thommes, Linux Magazine #Ubuntu #Linux #LinuxPackageFormatWars #NotInventedHereSyndrome #SoftwareDistribution
linux-magazine.com/Issues/2023

🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇2ck@qoto.org
2020-11-23

This seems useful. I hadn't even known what manylinux is, probably since most of my projects are pure Python.

labs.quansight.org/blog/2020/1

#python #linux #softwaredistribution

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