Now that OpenOffice.org does make some splashes in the IT press for the sole achievement of having created a "portable" version that can run from an USB stick (on Windows only, that is) -- isn't it time for klik to get ready for gaining its own share of public fame sometime soon? That's because klik does not only turn OpenOffice.org, but many thousand Linux applications into "PortableApps". And does not need painstakingly recompiling portable binaries from modified source code, one by one. But will re-utilize the marvellous work and special knowledge of all the dedicated Debian, RPM and Slackware packaging heroes out there and repackage 95% of its supported klik bundles fully automatically, including dependency resolution...

Have I ever mentioned that klik will be featured as one of 3 (invited) talks in the FOSDEM 2008 main track about "Packaging"? (The other two talks will be given by the Conary and the PackageKit developers.)

probono and myself will be presenting and showing off the (then) state of klik2 development, which will (hopefully) have reached a major milestone by February.

Last evening I re-tested how well (or not) klik2 does deal with applications that have no GUI at all. Though general CLI support is not even part of our preliminary February milestone plan, that one does start to work already pretty well.

Even though I finally did find an ipcalc package on the openSUSE build service repository, my personal coolness factor for running a Debian-born, klik-ified ipcalc on my (oldish) openSUSE-10.2 notebook feels considerably higher.

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