I know I said this in reply before, but I am going to say it again here:
Panzer, your freeware list posts are incredible, amazing & HUGELY appreciated !!!

In addition I wish to add that Panzer's recent postings have highlighted a wonderful development for us Linux users=> distro agnostic apps.

These are the specific things I am referring to that Panzer has provided lately:

http://flatpak.org/
"Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries. Flatpak is here to change all that."
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https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/introduction/
"LXD is a container "hypervisor" and a new user experience for LXC."

"Getting started with LXD
The simplest way to try LXD is by using it with its command line tool.
This can easily be done on your laptop or desktop machine.

On a system running 16.04 LTS you can install LXD with:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lxd
sudo lxd init

For other Ubuntu releases detailed instructions are available on:"
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/
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"Linux apps that run anywhere"
http://appimage.org/

"As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my Linux desktop system just like I would do with a Windows or Mac application."
"As an application author, I want to provide packages for Linux desktop systems, without the need to get it 'into' a distribution and without having to build for gazillions of different distributions."

Using AppImageKit you can package desktop applications as AppImages
that run on common Linux-based operating systems
https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/blob/master/README.md
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This next one may be a very good spin-off on the same ideas, but its site loads VERY poorly here:
https://www.orbital-apps.com/portable
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Great stuff indeed - incredibly good news for Linux users as the barriers between distros are falling down - a very needed development IMO.

Having to choose a distro based upon it being able to do MOST of what one wants has been pretty much normal...until now.

My best example from my own system:
I use multiple iterations of Thunderbird in order to separate my Gmail-based emails from my other non-Gmail ones.

Normally when using Linux this is only possible easily via creating separate users so that each user's emails are saved into a different Home directory, which is not a very smooth way of doing things.

Using packaged apps, running as standalone rather than being the system default, this should be accomplished as just a single user very easily.

Being able to do this is a HUGE leap forward, just as portable apps have been for M$ users who wish to keep their PCs from suffering winrot too quickly.

So again I say:
Thanks Panzer !!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2016 04:07PM by smallhagrid.

You are welcome. I am glad that you found something useful in my posts and that my "work" was not in vain ...

Smallhagrid, here is more similar stuff:
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/build-apps/

"... If one would like a rock-solid stable base (for example, from Debian or a RHEL clone) yet still have easy access to cutting-edge packages (from, say, Arch Linux), automate compiling packages with Gentoo's portage, and ensure that software aimed only for the ever popular Ubuntu will run smoothly - all at the same time, in the same distribution - Bedrock Linux will provide a means to achieve this ..":
http://bedrocklinux.org/

Thanks Again Panzer !!

You can also try Porteus:"...The Porteus Package Manager is a heavy duty installer that serves as a cross-distro package converter. It has modules for accessing repositories for its own apps along with Slackware, SlackBuild, Salix, Alien and Debian ...".



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2016 03:58PM by panzer.

Or you can install Alien (not developed anymore):"...Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it ...":http://joeyh.name/code/alien/

I haven't always been happy when using alien.
I prefer to build from source.

i.ri. have signaled an interisting tool which allows to simplify installing different types of packages.

https://github.com/icy/pacapt

A+

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