The press loves anything that sounds like a controversy. In my keynote I mentioned that Moblin 2 would start from a Fedora base - and that this was driven by a few features in RPM as well as in the build system that we intend to use.
This has nothing to do with "dropping" anything - it's simply a matter of the infrastructure we want to use. /D On 7/27/08 8:00 PM, "Mitsutaka Amano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > I'm a MIC commiter. We will implement the RPM full support. > So I thought that moblin 2.0 will take a RPM support. > > Maybe we might be mistaken for this announce. > I think that it's not switching and It's supporting. > > Thanks, > > ======================================== > Mitsutaka Amano > MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION > ======================================== > > > > Ian Lawrence wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >>> I have a simple question. Why will the moblin 2.0 switch from Ubuntu to >>> Feodra? >>> I would like to know RPM's advantage and DEB's fault more details. >>> >> I do not really think it is a case of faults/advantages or that rpm is >> better or worse than deb but rather that it makes good sense for >> Moblin to work for a while on rpm compatibility. I am thinking here >> about the image creator utility specifically. >> Moblin is an upstream project for whoever wants the code (thats the >> beauty of open source) so the ubuntu guys can just package it in debs >> and <insert downstream distro> can package it in rpms. >> IMO headlines like 'Moblin drops Ubuntu' are more about shifting >> eyeballs to news sites than they are about anything that could >> actually be useful to a reader >> If I was moblin I would wait a year and then 'drop' Fedora for say >> slackware and start to have some fun with the whole thing >> >> Ian >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
