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saurik on March 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users

> The Linux ecosystem needs one distro (say Ubuntu) to become so influential, that app devs start to primarily target it instead of the upstream.

This used to be RedHat: software for Linux would often come as either 1) source code (if open), 2) a crazy .sh install script, and 3) an RPM package for RedHat 5.

jff on March 9, 2012 [–]

It is now Ubuntu. I think damn near all Linux software I see now has an Ubuntu .deb available.

jiggy2011 on March 10, 2012 | [–]

Apart from Oracle Java it seems.

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