Lloyd Budd wrote:
On 13-Dec-03, at 19:43, David J Patrick wrote:
I just followed an osnews.com story and discovered ZeroInstall (http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/) I'm /floored/ by the implications. Does this not look like THE most brilliant approach to software availability ? ..or do I need more sleep ?
You probably need more sleep. This does not seem any different than the "promise" of Java (applets), and other applet incarnations.
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Much faster (lower level unix implimentation) requiring no Runtime Environment and capapble of running full applications, not just applets, from any avalable media; local drive, CDrom, http etc. second time the app runs from the cache, negating the need for always-on connection. and yes, I _do_ need more sleep. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml