Ian Murdock has commented that package management is "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry", that it blurs the boundaries between operating system and applications, and that it makes it "easier to push new innovations ... into the marketplace and ... evolve the OS".
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Software Distributor (SD) is the Hewlett-Packard company's name for their HP-UX software package management system.
Autopackage, a package management system for installing software on Linux systems