Leading Linux distribution developers met recently to discuss how they could make it easier for users to find, download, and install applications, perhaps using the App Store-like approach that has become so successful in the Android and Apple worlds.
Linux Developers Mull Unified App Store - InformationWeek
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Developers from Debian, Fedora, Red Hat , Mageia, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Ubuntu met Jan. 19-21 at the SUSE office in Nürnberg, Germany, and conferred about a universal application installer API and infrastructure -- which they referred to as an Application Store. This cross-distribution meeting on an application installer addressed several key aims, such as agreeing on a common user interface to install applications; concurring on the metadata to use, how to generate it, and where to host it; consenting on a protocol to provide non-static metadata; and deciding what metadata to share between distributions and what metadata should stay distribution-specific, according to the meeting agenda .Featured Article : Java Development Pune
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Linux Developers Mull Unified App Store - InformationWeek
