Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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egoshin is offline egoshin
2010-02-19 , 20:01
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#181
Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
having access to big debian repositories isn't supposed to be immediately beneficial to end-users.
Exactly!

it makes porting popular OSS applications a hell of a lot easier, resulting in more available software.
Actually - NO. If you want to port, there is no difference where you get the sources. In most cases you get it's last version from sourceforge or application web site and that would be in .tar file.

The only exclusion - if you port a system maintenance application which works in the same model as your debian-based system AND your window manager. So, Gnome vs KDE plays role but DEB vs RPM - not.
 

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