#installers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #installers, aggregated by home.social.
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BTW: the #installers via #winget were redirected to #GitHub. This should enhance the download speed a lot.
The mirrors at @sourceforge were not reliable yesterday (only one was available) resulting in painful slow download speeds here in Europ. It is imperative that this is not acceptable one day after a new #release.
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159
#HackerNews #Windows95 #Installers #FileOverwrite #SoftwareHistory #TechSecurity
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159
#HackerNews #Windows95 #Installers #FileOverwrite #SoftwareHistory #TechSecurity
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159
#HackerNews #Windows95 #Installers #FileOverwrite #SoftwareHistory #TechSecurity
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159
#HackerNews #Windows95 #Installers #FileOverwrite #SoftwareHistory #TechSecurity
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159
#HackerNews #Windows95 #Installers #FileOverwrite #SoftwareHistory #TechSecurity
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@x42 @ercanbrack 3/5 Plugin #maintenance today (on any OS) can be messy. Some come with #installers, some don't, some tell you what to put where (manually). Many put files or folders all over the place or ask you to put stuff in directories as root etc. There's no automatic #updating too. There's problems like libcurl version conflicts (can be fixed with patchelf) or plugins can't access their #presets and so on.
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Most people do not need another new, expensive to #install & run, #domestic #heating #system. What we desperately need is cheap & durable #insulation that can be retro-fitted onto #old #housing #stock, & enough #trained #installers to actually provide it to all who need it
Farewell #radiators? #Testing out #electric #infrared #wallpaper
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netbootxyz is a network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz
Pretty useful if you have the weird job/hobby of installing multiple operating systems to “places” and you want an all-in-one bootloader to ease your pain.
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netbootxyz is a network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz
Pretty useful if you have the weird job/hobby of installing multiple operating systems to “places” and you want an all-in-one bootloader to ease your pain.
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The GPL is not an EULA
Before I get to the meat of this blog post, let me make sure nobody would misunderstand for a lawyer. What you’re about to read is a half-rant about Free Software projects distributing Windows binaries with pretty much default installer settings. It is in no way legal advice, and it is not being provided by someone with any semblance of legal training.
If you follow Foone or me on Twitter social media, you probably have noticed one time or another our exchanges of posts about GPL in Windows installers.
Setup of USBPcap 1.5.3.0. In addition to accepting the (GPL-2) license for the driver, it also requires you to accept the (MIT) license for the wrapper. Setup of InfraRecorder 0.53, explicitly showing the GPLv3 in a screen titled “End-User License Agreement”The reason for this annoyance is that, as Foone pointed out many times in the past, licenses such as GPL and MIT are not EULAs: End-User License Agreements. They are, by design, licensing the distribution of the software, rather than its use. Now, in 2020 a lot of people are questioning this choice, but that’s a different topic altogether.
What this means for a consumer is that you are not required to agree to the GPL (or LGPL, or MIT) to install and use a piece of software. You’re required to agree to it if you decide to redistribute it. And as such the install wizards’ license dialogs, with their “I accept the terms” checkboxes are pretty much pointless. And an annoyance because you need to actually figure out where to click instead of keep clicking “Next” — yes I realise that the tiniest violin may be playing at that annoyance, but that’s not the point.
Indeed, the point why I make fun of these installers is because, at least to me, they show the cultural mark of proprietary software on Windows, and the general lack of interest in the politics of Free Software from pretty much everybody involved. The reason why the installers default to saying “EULA” and insisting on you to agree to it, is because non-Free Software on Windows usually does have EULAs. And even the FLOSS installer frameworks ended up implementing the same pattern.
VLC, unsurprisingly, cares about Free Software ideals and its politics, and went out of its way many years ago to make sure that the license is correctly shown in its installer. For a few other projects, I sent patches myself to correct them, whenever I can. For others… well, it’s complicated. The WiX installer toolkit was released years ago by Microsoft as open source, and is used by Calibre and Mono among others, but it seems like the only way to have it show a non-EULA screen is to copy one of its built-in dialogs and edit it.
As I said recently on Twitter, we need a reference website, with instructions on how to correctly display non-EULA Free Software licenses on Windows (and any other operating system). Unfortunately I don’t have time to go through the releasing process as I’m about to leave the company in a few weeks. So either it’ll have to wait another couple of weeks (when I’m free from those obligations), or be started by someone else.
Until then, I guess I’ll provide this blog post as a reference to anyone who asks me why am I even complaining about those licenses.
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There are so, so many #GUI-based #installers that can't even be bothered to support the basic #accessibility that is built in by default into every single #MSWindows edition, and has been from very early on. This is nothing new. And it doesn't seem to improve, either: arrogance and ignorance continue to make installerss unusable for the visually impaired among us. #a11y #qualityAssurance