I always have this question:

Since a large project like Golang has so many auto-build tools and test OSes, how hard is it to provide a binary download for e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? You know, not tarballs, but actual static binaries as deb packages installable via apt-get.

Good examples:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/installation/...

I root for open source movement, but to install something on a popular arch/OS by compiling from source everytime is just meaningless power consumption and adding CO2 emissions.