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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)
It doesn't really work out that way.  Mostly every distro fits neatly into 1 of about 8 main families and even different families only have minor differences between the way they do things.  

With package management there are only about 4 main different ways.  If you look at one good example, Adobe Reader
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
The top drop-down shows, for;
* Windows, 7 different downloads.  One for each of 7, Vista, Xp and so on
* Mac, 4 different downloads
* Linux, 1, well 4 when you look at the bottom drop-down but of those 1 is deb and another is a tarball so that is just 1 really
* Solaris, 2
* Android, 1

So it's really not the case that there needs to be hundreds for
Gnu&Linux even tho that is often used as the excuse for not even
offering 1.

If hardware manufacturers didn't mind producing 1 OpenSource driver then
it would cover all the different Gnu&Linux families, Solaris, Android,
Bsd and Macs.  Plus being OpenSource would mean that it could be updated
faster if malware exploits were found.

So the simple answer to "Do we really need a Firefox package for every
distribution?" is No.  And at the moment we don't have a separate
package for each one anyway.

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Faldegast <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't really think it is impossible to gather all that under one roof.
However I tend to think that perhaps we have to much in the
distributions. Do we really need a Firefox package for every
distribution?

A common packaging of common apps should simplify a lot.

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

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Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
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Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
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  Invalid
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  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
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  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
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  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
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  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
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  In Progress
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Bug description:
  Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
  This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

  Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
  restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
  limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
  potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

  Steps to repeat:

  1. Visit a local PC store.

  What happens:
  2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
  3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

  What should happen:
  1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
  2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
  3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

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