William Park wrote:

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:34:04PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:

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(from the website) Key Points;

* Software is only ever /cached/, not /installed/. Anyone can run any software, and nothing is run as root. * Running a program is done in the same way whether it's cached or not. * Running cached software is as fast as running traditionally-installed software. * Zero Install is both simpler and more secure than traditional packaging systems. * Software can be removed from the cache to free space without affecting the behaviour of the system (it will be recached on demand).

How hard could it be ? ok, it requires a small Linux kernel module to provide the /uri/0install directory, but that's probably a piece o cake, for a seasoned, Rox lovin', kernel compilin' cowboy, such as yerself. right ?

If this thing works, as advertized, it'll change the world.. unless nobody "gets it". check it out, try it out. spread the word.

(when I learn to cook up a kernel, I'm gonn go 2.6, cause Linus said to, and get me some 0install,

But, how would you run Vim or LaTeX? You would have to dial out every time you turn your computer on, no? Is that like doing network install, every time?

Only the first time you use an application. After that, you got it in the cache. (this will be a much smaller PITA than the current download+install medthod) Of course, down the road _when_ this bit of super-genius takes off, a "distribution" will be nothing more than a core cache of esential apps and preconfigured pointers that will allowing any user to bootstrap any ol' online box to anything developers have made available via 0install. tell two people ! djp -- 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