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Introducing Limba – a software installer experiment
As some of you already know, since the larger restructuring in PackageKit for the 1.0 release, I am rethinking Listaller, the 3rd-party application installer for Linux systems, as well. During the past...
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How to build a cross-distro package with Limba
Disclaimer: Limba is still in a very early stage of development. Bugs happen, and I give to guarantees on API stability yet. Limba is a very simple cross-distro package installer, utilizing OverlayFS...
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Yesterday I released version 0.8 of AppStream, the cross-distribution standard for software metadata, that is currently used by GNOME-Software, Muon and Apper in to display rich metadata about...
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Limba Project: Another progress report
And once again, it’s time for another Limba blogpost Limba is a solution to install 3rd-party software on Linux, without interfering with the distribution’s native package manager. It can be useful to...
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Deploying Limba packages: Ideas & current status
The Limba project does not only have the goal to allow developers to deploy their applications directly on multiple Linux distributions while reducing duplication of shared resources, it should also...
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A few words about the future of the Limba project
I wanted to write this blogpost since April, and even announced it in two previous posts, but never got to actually write it until now. And with the recent events in Snappy and Flatpak land, I can not...
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