What are the major differences between portable software and application software?

Are their any software development methods that we can use when developing portable software?  

Could we use IDEs like Net Beans IDE to develop portable software?

What are the major differences in coding?

Could you please help me to find answers?

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Hello,

I configured network proxy through "network proxy" in preference submenu of system.

I have downloaded and setup dropbox correctly.

But when I try to connect this error appeared. Why is it so I have also configured it in my lappy and it's working just fine

but i'm getting this message in desktop.

Thanks.

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Hi,

I dual booted fedora 10 with Ubuntu. I guess I configured it correctly.

However I can't run it. I'm getting an system error after bootup.

Is anything not configured correctly?

Please help!

Thank you.

Error:

Error activating XKB configuration.

it can happen under various circumstances:

-a bug in libxklavier library

-a bug in X...

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Hello,

I removed my existing windows OS and installed fedora by wiping an entire hard disk.

Now I want to view some files on my external hdd.

But I'm getting this serious error. It says that I don't have access to my files.

Do i have to login through root?

Please help!

Thanks

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I have just started using fedora, and since then I have some problems like the one I had yesterday; when I access add/remove package and try to upgrade programs an error message appears.

Error:

Unable to retrieve software information
Unable to retrieve software information. This could be...

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I’m running Fedora 10 and have been trying to get Xen working VM supervisor hasn’t been able to find the hypervisor and I receive the following message :

Error:

Error determining default hypervisor
Could not populate a default connection. Make sure the appropriate virtualization packages are installed...

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I’ve recently installed openofficeorg-writer

On my fedora OS, today when everything is loaded I received this error message:

Error

Failed to load image openofficeorg-writer

Details: Icon not found

and I couldn’t find out why this message has appeared how you can help dealing with this.

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Hello,
In order to deploy full screen in Vmware I had to install the Guest Additions.
I went to the menu: Devices> Install Guest Additions
the CD icon appeared on my desktop.
I opened it, and I copied all files in the folder which I had created in my...

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Yesterday I’ve trying to print a Document my CUPS server crashed and my default printers has been replaced and after that, I had tried to access KDE printer configuration an error message has appeared :

Error:

CUPS server error
There was an error during the CUPS
 operation:...

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After updating my Fedora Os this morning Nautilus haven’t started and an error message has appeared

Error:

Nautilus cannot be used now,
due to an unexpected error.
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Nautilus cannot be used now, due to an
unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting
 to locate the factory....

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