[Cialug] MSFT to partner with Novell

[Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com]

Hmmm, Yast (or apt-get) on windows ....

Ruby's Gem package installer works on Windows, and what's cool about it
is:
1) when a Gem is pure Ruby code, it can install the Gem on your machine
without thinking about platform ('cuz you've got a Ruby VM already),
2) when a Gem is binary, the Gem installer checks your OS vs the
repository and either gives you choices of Gems compiled for your OS or
fails out letting you know there's no Gem compiled and packaged for your
platform.

Perl's CPAN (I get that right?) is similar, no?  And java is headed that
way.

Problem with Yast on Windows is most of the packages are binary
compiles, which means they would need repackaging for Windows, which is
not a small effort.  But it's an idea I'd welcome.

Shame you can't 'apt-get upgrade windows' and have it all just work.
Though if it did, Microsoft would have a hard time selling their system
management tools.

=Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Josh More
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:35 AM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: RE: [Cialug] MSFT to partner with Novell

[edited]

The "runs on windows" is not the issue, the issue is ease of
installation and graphical configuration.  I can see this agreement
making Yast a management tool on Windows as well as making installing
systems like you mention as easy as "yum install postgres"

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