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NixOS: A Distro Focused on Next-Generation Package Management
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| NixOS is not about to challenge Ubuntu or Fedora as a desktop distribution
| any time soon. But, then, user-friendliness is not its point. Originally
| developed by Eelco Dolstra as a doctoral project at Utrecht University, and
| now developed by a small team at Delft University of Technology in the
| Netherlands, NixOS is designed as a test of Nix, a new package manager
| designed to overcome key problems with existing package managers. As a
| result, what you think of NixOS is likely to depend largely on your interest
| in package management.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6654/1/
Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux
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| Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software
| package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates
| to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in
| letting Linux take over the platform space once dominated by Unix.
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| OpenSolaris 2008.11, the second major release of Sun Microsystems’
| freely-licensed, Solaris-based operating system, hit the Web late last year
| packed with feature enhancements that illustrate that Sun isn't about to cede
| the platform stage to Linux, as brothers-in-Unix such as IBM's AIX and
| Hewlett-Packard’s HP-UX have done.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Sun-Enhancements-to-OpenSolaris-Take-Aim-at-Linux/
Recent:
Package management
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| Those are some of the package managers out there. I hope you can see the
| differences between them after reading this. The early package managers were
| collections of simple install, remove and update routines. While APT was
| eventually developed to be very feature-rich, third-party package managers
| for Slackware Linux are mostly simple programs that add dependency resolution
| and one or two other features. RPM was an evolution of the package manager
| closer to a complete package management system. It added features like
| dependency checking, tracking, automatic installation and checksum
| verification.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080630#feature
Do we really need another packaging system?
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| The reality of the situation is that the differences between distros gives
| people a chance to innovate more with how a Linux system works. Trying to
| funnel everything down through some common layer at the bottom really reduces
| the chances for big innovation to happen.
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http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/06/do-we-really-need-another-packaging.html
http://tinyurl.com/5rkf8h
Related:
Why Having 500+ Distros is a Good Thing
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| Perhaps next time the author might think about what they're
| saying...because limiting the number of distros out there is
| absolutely NOT the way to go to accomplish anything other
| than limiting innovation.
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/186-Why-Having-500+-Distros-is-a-Good-Thing.html
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