On 09/15/17 11:53 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
On 15 September 2017 at 09:33, Alexander Pyhalov <[email protected]> wrote:
On 09/15/17 05:54 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
What a hell??? Can we create a single universal distribution???? Too much
fragmentation for such a small community.
isn't that a but like saying "can we create a single tool for installing a
bathroom"? or "which is the most important tool in your toolbox? can we
throw out all the others?"
each group in the community has their own focus, and there is no "neutral"
core to which all innovations are returned to the benefit of the community.
Because of how the community works, and the fact that some of the changes
might damage some of the things that the other "distributions" are doing,
it makes it hard to get changes accepted by others, apart from "here are
the git diffs if you want to pull them"
(that said; if it was possible, I'd love it to happen. At one point in
time I think Garrett may have been close, but it wasn't supported by
everyone)
FreeBSD doesn't have this problem. They have different teams, interested
in different areas, but still share single code base. Even embedded
FreeBSD images can be created from the same code base. So, I consider
that this is just a matter of organization and processes, which still
try to follow corporate policies of big organization, instead of
adopting to existing world of OSS.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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