Video: Spotlight on PackageKit
by The editorial team
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In the second installment of the Spotlight On series, we feature Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes on the fantastic new abstraction layer called PackageKit. PackageKit allows users to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. This maintains a common set of GUI features, enabling the user to have a better session experience overall. For more information, visit www.packagekit.org.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:50 am
Having used PackageKit since it was introduced in Fedora 9 I can only say this is one of the most important new developments on the desktop in recent history. Tying in the ability to install features on demand is simply amazing and best of all it doesn’t matter what distro I am using it on. The experience is the same. PackageKit lets developers easily complete an existing incomplete experience – no codecs for playing this file, no required headers to develop this type of project and so on, let’s search for them and install them.
Richard has really brought about something great here and more importantly he has managed to get buy-in and excitement going from every angle.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:40 am
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November 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
[...] Detta eviga tjat om paketformat, installation och upgradering. [IDG] Det senaste nu är PackageKit, vilket tydligen skall underlätta för utvecklare och systemintegratörer. PackageKit är ett D-Bus abstraktionslager, vilken ska vara plattformsoberoende. En kort videosnutt om PackageKit och utvecklaren Richard Hughes, som arbetar för Red Hat. PackageKit ska ses som ett grafiskt verktyg (GUI), för att ena de olika paketformaten och de pakethanterare, vilket de olika distributionerna använder sig av. Distributionerna; Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, rPath, Foresight Linux, Pardus och Fedora, deltar redan i utvecklingsarbetet. [...]
November 28th, 2008 at 1:14 am
[...] Fedora 10 (Cambridge) ..brimming with features :Fedora 10 was released this week. Just like many others ,I gave up on Fedora long back and switched to Ubunutu. But Fedora 10 has got rave reviews ,I am tempted to give Fedora 10 a try. Fedora 10 brims with new features, including a new graphical boot manager that uses some nifty features from the linux kernel to provide a ‘flicker less’ boot process. Another significant addition is enhancements to PackageKit , its software management tool ,that install libraries and codec’s on demand ,transparent to the user. The idea looks very promising. Need to see how this progresses. [...]
December 1st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
This is a great idea… most people new to a linux distribution will really like this. For some reason, this will have a huge positive impact on his/her impression. The people who are more technical will be impressed with how the project turns complex task into a simple one.
Overall, it will help the new users explore using linux distributions and have fun too!