I use F-Droid with cyanogen and I am quite happy, the number and quality of apps is steadily increasing too. On Mar 30, 2015 2:49 PM, "John Morris" <jmor...@beau.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:33 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > BTW, I, like many others, find convenient to use e.g. Skype, and I > > would prefer to run it inside a container. > > > Over there, Linux installers are > > > Shareware. All of them. I'm not a priest of St. Ignucius but the idea > > > of the return of Shareware gives me the willies and is a future I do. > > > not. want. > > > > > I don't understand your point. Are sharewares the present as you > > first say or are they a future you don't want to see? I don't see also > > why you call shareware the Debian installer. > > Go look at the Play Store. You can install Linux, including Debian, > inside Android via fairly turnkey installers. All of them are > Shareware. Not just most of them. Yes there is F-Droid, with all of a > few hundred packages, everything else is nagware, spyware, adware or > outright paid. F-Droid has Linux a Linux installer too.... and yup it > too was Shareware last time I looked. They had to start admitting > Shareware to F-Droid or it apparently would be an empty repo. Build a > platform around the idea of untrusted apps and apparently they will > come, add in seamless ads and micropayments and Free Software vanishes, > Virtualization, containers and jails all have their place, untrustworthy > (all closed source) software like Skype being a good use. But when we > reach the point we routinely take the performance hit and run everything > in one it will probably be because we have surrendered control of the > repos to the untrustworthy... or soon will. > > > At the end, John, I don't find what you are proposing, nor even if > > you do propose anything to avoid what happened with systemd and might > > well happen again. > > Simple. Systemd is only the tip of the spear in what appears planned as > a total reinvention of the OS. They aren't done yet. What happens when > the next major component of that plan appears upstream is something that > should be anticipated and planned for this time. We should not be > caught unawares again. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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