GNU / Linux as a desktop operating system has an extensive tour and has gained a maturity and stability make it a real alternative to its two main rivals: Windows and Mac . However the statistics are devastating for use in the home, less than 1% worldwide.
There are several reasons for this situation, one of them is the difficulty of installation for the home user of programs called "packages" in this system. Furthermore, if you want to install is not in your distribution, this can be an ordeal.
Recently met in Suse headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, representatives of Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva and mageia (a fork of Mandriva) to address the problem with a unified installation and distribution programs through AppStream, an App Store for GNU / Linux
l project is still under discussion. In the three days The meeting which lasted from 19 to 21 January, has sought a rapprochement of ideas and studied ways to reach a global agreement that involves not only technical aspects but also strategic and commercial.
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There may lie the key to project success AppStream. Each of the "big" is going to have to give ground and see how far they are willing to do so. Bear in mind that now the major distributions have important sponsors behind and would be fatal that do not coincide, rather than have an App Store AppStream for distribution. Power
download a program for GNU / Linux any distribution to the architecture and is a central site with a few taps of the mouse, you can have this operating system, whose quality is an indisputable fact, coming in the place that justice may be entitled under our desks.
must not forget two important features that have popularized the Penguin system: the almost universal generosity and the fact that the code is open ensures that thousands of eyes scrutinize every line of code looking for stability and security. AppStream trust that soon becomes a reality.
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