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Ubuntu's software store shows up in Karmic Alpha

By Fabio on Friday September 18th 2009 09:23 | Category: software

Ubuntu's latest Karmic Alpha build has given the daring users a first glimpse of the Official Ubuntu Software Store. Canonical, the company behind the Linux distribution announced the introduction of such a shop earlier this year.

The goal of the new Software Store is to bring structure to the way applications are installed on the system. They want to merge all the different package manager into a single 'click and go' system that even the n00best amongst us can operate.

With the upcomming release 'Karmic' in sight the developers have really been hollin ass to get all the milestones in and this Store was one of those milestones. Although deprecation of the current package managers 'apt-get, gdebi, dpkg' won't start until the next release I can already see many users choosing this way of installing apps over the default 'add/remove' system.

We'll just have to see how this turns out, but my first experience where pretty darn good I have to say. Lets just hope Ubuntu keeps enough of it's inner nerd features to keep the die dard Linux purists satisfied as well.

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