Alcuni dei motivi per cui linux è relativamente poco diffuso sui desktop:
http://portablelinuxapps.org/docs/1.0/AppImageKit.pdf
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1.No recent apps on mature operating systems
In most distributions, you get only the version that
was recent at the time when the distribution was created. For example, if you use Ubuntu Gutsy then
you are stuck forever with the software that was recent at the time when Ubuntu Gutsy was compiled.
Even if Firefox might have progressed by several versions in the meantime, you cannot get more
recent apps than what was available back when the distribution was put together. That is like if you'd
get only software from 2001 when you use Windows XP.
In the traditional model, the user has to decide: Either use a mature base operating system but be
locked out of recent apps (e.g., using Ubuntu LTE), or be forced to update the base operating system
to the latest bleeding edge version in order to get the recent apps (e.g., using Debian Sid).
This situation is clearly not optimal, since the common desktop user would prefer to hardly touch the
base operating system (maybe update it every other year or so) but always get the latest apps.
2.No way to use multiple versions in parallel
Most package managers do not allow you to have more
than one version of an app installed in parallel. Hence you have no way to simply try out the latest
version of an app without running the risk that it might not be easy to switch back to the older version,
especially if the older version is no longer available in your distribution (e.g, old versions get removed
from Debian Sid as soon as a newer version appears). This is especially annoying if you would simply
like to try out a few things before you decide whether to use the old or the new version.
3.Not easy to move an app from one machine to another
If you've used an app on one machine and
decide that you would like to use the same app either under a different base operating system (say,
you want to use OpenOffice on Fedora after having used it on Ubuntu) or if you would simply take
the app from one machine to another (say from the desktop computer to the netbook), you have to
download and install the app again (if you did not keep around the installation files and if the two
operating systems don't share the exact same package format - both of which is rather unlikely).
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Gli spatialbundle sono anche a 64bit,non so che differenze ci siano tra i due formati
http://www.archlinux.it/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=79119