A Labourer at the Bitface » outdated software practices http://devilgate.org/blog Warning: contains language from the outset Sun, 06 May 2012 23:10:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 It is _immensely_ annoying that you can … http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/06/20/it-is-_immensely_-annoying-that-you-can/ http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/06/20/it-is-_immensely_-annoying-that-you-can/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:39:50 +0000 Martin McCallion http://devilgate.org/blog/2008/06/20/it-is-_immensely_-annoying-that-you-can/ Continue reading →]]> It is immensely annoying that you can’t just download and install Firefox 3 on Linux (at least the Xandros distro that comes with the Eee PC) without having to install something called Gtk+ 2.10. Not least because you can’t just apt-get install the latter: you have to build it from source, and handle countless dependencies. Really, I thought we were supposed to have got past all that shit.

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