-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09-05-2005 08:21, Markus Gamenius wrote: > > > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > >> On ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ 09 ÎÎÎÎÏ 2005 00:54, Halvor Dahl wrote: >> >>> Ubuntu may sound like the right answer, but what is the question? >>> In my opinion, it is "How do we get control over our release >>> process?" and not "What distro should we chose?". >> >> >> >> Fwiw, I strongly oppose jumping overboard to Ubuntu. However little my >> opinion may matter, I'll just say this. Ubuntu _is_ a commercial >> product. It may or may not be there in 2 or more years. > > > This i is why I argue for beeing less distro-centric. This way we will > stay whatever happends with Debian, Ubuntu or the others.
Please elaborate. Debian defines a set of rules for packaging, decides when each package can be considered "unstable", "testing" and "stable", and from time to time packages together whole sets of packages and call it a "stable distribution release". Debian has core rule of most possible rules allowing room for a huge amount of developers moving in their own pace. Ubuntu derives from this, but cuts off that "annoying" part of respecting different agendas of each developer - instead, developers are being paid to work on a common, more well-defined agenda. Skolelinux is a derivative as well. But what is more sane than deriving from the "mothership of .deb-based distributions"? Perhaps Skolelinux should release its "stable distribution releases" in another frequency than Debian. Who should then handle the extended security-maintainance? Perhaps Skolelinux should pick some packages from Debian, some from Ubuntu, some from debian.jones.dk maybe, and... Who should then handle the extended security-maintainance AND conflicts between packages not by each "provider" testing together in our mix? Remember that not only installation matters, but upgrades between our releases as well! So, in short - what do you mean by "less distro-centric"? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nÃr: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCfy3Cn7DbMsAkQLgRAsUKAJ4oSc7jllno0B8O0P/fbywUnFmTigCgh0oc 7q/UgcakjZ9wPJ6PpiuqiRg= =3rko -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
