Google Chrome OS

[Ben Duncan]

And Ubuntu uses uses a .bundle installer, which is nothing more than
a SHAR archive with the binaries uuencoded ... soooo early 1980's ;->

David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:56, Lonni J Friedman<netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any distro that is still using tarballs as its default packaging
>> mechanism is a dinosaur.
> 
> OK, this response is just ignorant.
> 
> So Slackware uses tarballs.  Inside the tarballs are binaries and
> configuration files and more.  You get what you need.
> 
> RH (and derivatives) use .rpm files.  Inside the rpm file (basically a
> relabelled cpio file) are binaries and configuration files and more.
> You get what you need.
> 
> So, basically, any distro still distributing binaries is a dinosaur?
> 
> Lonnie, your mother should have taught you better manners.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel


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