On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:57:45AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> Ubuntu also seems a much better fit in spirit than RedHat. > > Agreed. xodist could easily be used, and the OLPC specific RPMs could > be converted to .deb with not a lot of effort. Launchpad could also > offer some benefit in terms of package branches and private package > archives. > > But really, it comes down to what the current developers are familiar > with. The technical reasons don't beat not-invented-here.
I don't think it comes down to that. I have used debian-based distros since the first debian appeared and today still use Ubuntu on all my personal computers. Needed to learn new stuff to do my work on OLPC like packaging rpms, using koji, etc but nothing that supposed a big effort. What it comes down is the support that you get. RH has invested very talented engineers' time to the project (starting with Marco, what would be Sugar today if he wasn't around?). I'm not sure if Canonical shares the Sugar vision or if they would have invested so much on OLPC stuff. But about the community, I must say that we have had awesome support from both the Fedora and Debian+Ubuntu communities. I'm saying this as an observer, I'm just a contracted developer and don't have any insider information about OLPC deals with other companies. My point is only that RH has already done a great deal of work in Sugar even if it hasn't been advertised widely. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel