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Tell Ubuntu Which Third-Party Apps You Want Available

Written by compews
Jan 26 2010

It’s bound to roil open source advocates, but some Ubuntu leaders are asking the community which third-party, proprietary applications should be available for easy installation. You can weigh in on Photoshop, iTunes, Evernote, and more in an online survey.

As noted in the Ubuntu Forums post announcing the survey, the question isn’t about which apps are included by default in the operating system, but which apps should be worked on to be easily installed from Ubuntu’s official software sources. There are, to be sure, third-party, not-entirely-open apps available in the optional repositories you can enable from Ubuntu’s settings, but by asking whether apps like iTunes, Photoshop, and Spotify should be made easy to emulate and install on your Ubuntu system, the developer community is showing a real focus on expanding Linux use beyond the seasoned geek crowd.

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