tal197 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:"Is this the end of the walled gardens..." (Score 1) 82

by tal197 on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @03:57AM (#36225604) Attached to: Zero Install Project Makes 1.0 Release

What's that? It doesn't run on any of those? Oh dear.

Yes, some platforms are so locked down that they won't let you run 0install. But it has been ported to all the common platforms that allow it (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows).

Submission + - 0install - The Antidote To App-Stores? (gmane.org)

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tal197

on Monday May 23, 2011 @12:14PM

tal197 writes: "Zero Install, the decentralised cross-distribution software installation system, announced 0install 1.0 today, after 8 years in development. 0install allows authors to publish directly from their own web-sites, while supporting familiar features such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures. The end of the walled-gardens of traditional app-stores and Linux distributions and the beginning of a true "Web of Software"?"

Comment Zero Install feed for Chromium (Score 1) 948

by tal197 on Sunday May 31, 2009 @04:29AM (#28156537) Attached to: Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

I've put up a Zero Install feed here, for those looking for an easy way to install it:

http://0install.net/tests/Chromium.xml

Tested on Ubuntu/Jaunty so far, but let me know if it doesn't work on other distributions.

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