{"id":41,"date":"2009-05-28T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2009-05-28T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T10:55:00","slug":"ubuntu-packages-the-only-linux-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/ubuntu-packages-the-only-linux-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu packages the only Linux option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just watched a fascinating video entitled &#8220;Why Desktop Linux Sucks&#8221; by Bryan Lunduke (<a href=\"http:\/\/anotherubuntu.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/why-desktop-linux-sucks.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/anotherubuntu.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/why-desktop-linux-sucks.html<\/a>).\u00a0 Desktop Linux works really well for me but Bryan makes a lot of important points. \u00a0 I certainly agree that packaging is a big problem.\u00a0 The approach I have taken for Linux installation with the SOFA Statistics project is to only release a deb package aimed at Ubuntu (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/downloads.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/downloads.php<\/a>).\u00a0 I am already spending a lot of time packaging as it is and would like to spend more time developing new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just watched a fascinating video entitled &#8220;Why Desktop Linux Sucks&#8221; by Bryan Lunduke (http:\/\/anotherubuntu.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/why-desktop-linux-sucks.html).\u00a0 Desktop Linux works really well for me but Bryan makes a lot of important points. \u00a0 I certainly agree that packaging is a big problem.\u00a0 The approach I have taken for Linux installation with the SOFA Statistics project is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}