[Ilugc] help regarding software downloading
- From: tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx (Shrinivasan T)
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:06:33 +0530
Whether the same way softwares for linux can be downloaded. All sites
are asking which linux you are using
Because there are many GNU/Linux distributions with variations on the design.
GNU/Linux applications are developed as multiple parts and libraries.
They are interlinked and called with the application is running.
These libraries can be used by multiple applications.
Example: aspell is a spell checker.
This can be run as stand alone application.
or called from any text editor, or word processor.
Thus, gedit, vim, kate or libreoffice can use the same aspell spellchecker.
We can use the aspell in our own developed application.
On the Windows OS, all the libraries and utilities are bundled with
single software.
We can not use the spellchecker comes with MS Office in any of the
other application.
If we write our own application, we have to write our own spellchecker.
As all the components are bundled, Windows application installers are portable.
In GNU/Linux, all the applications depends on someother utilities and libraries,
Thats why the size of the software are very little compared to Windows apps.
but, they are not portable, usually.
The installation systems line apt-get, yum, ubuntu software center,
synaptic take care
of installing all the dependencies along with the single software.
Any portable application is there as in the case of windows?
By googling i am not able to get .
Any help is highly appreciated.
There is an effort to create portable applications too.
check here.
http://portablelinuxapps.org/
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