OSNews: A Call to Distros: Give Users What They Want | Linux Today

OSNews: A Call to Distros: Give Users What They Want

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2006

“A few months ago we ran a poll about the most important
non-free Linux apps. We had over 8,000 votes in that poll and we
consider the results pretty interesting. Interesting enough to push
Linux’s market share if a distro capitalized on them?

“Right now, the users of the 3-5 most popular Linux distros have
to either search the internet for guides like this one in order to
get an idea how to install non-free software, or they have to
figure out how to use the distro’s package management and how to
enable certain repositories…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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