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Open source 'bazaar' tool lets users haggle across package formats
Original: The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desir
A new open source utility called Bazaar is drawing attention among Linux and FreeBSD users. The tool presents software packages as 'merchants' speaking different languages, letting users negotiate and install packages from multiple sources, including older archives described as antiquities from a Solaris shop. Fans on Mastodon praise it as a playful way to unify package management across Unix-like systems.
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- The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the # Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. # Linux # FreeBSD # OpenSource https://… · conansysadmin@mstdn.social · 1
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