Note that all these parallel maintainers feed their work back into the main
trees. So all distros nominally get the benefits of each others' efforts.
{^_^}
On 20200202 11:26:26, Pwillis wrote:
From my personal, outsider, view the ‘Distribution’ thing is a major
bottleneck with the long term stability of Linux. Distributions dilute the
focus on maintenence by dividing the available labour resource over a foolish
duplication of tasks. This is usually a marketing thing of some kind (ie:
Oracle Redhat fork, Ubuntu vs. Debian, Slack vs. Gentoo, CentOS vs. Redhat).
If all the people who are maintainers, globally, held thier noses a bit and
actually came together on a single distro there would be more hands on.
I know, one can appreciate that eveyone wants a custom OS for their own
purposes and this drives people to fork.
If there was more focus on the generics of system building, package selection,
and optimized kernel driver boiler-plate, there would be no need for so many
distributions. People could just set up builds of predefined package
compilations against the master public distribution.
The issues seen today with distributions are the same issues seen early in the
history of UNIX where everyone had a different proprietary version and
nobody’s soiftware worked with anyone else’s distro.
Resolution of real technical issues now seems to get lost in the noise of
endless discussions of distribution religion.
I normally sign on to mail lists to resolve a problematic technical issue.
What I am seeing on mailing lists, in general (not just this one), is a marked
decline of useful technical feedback to the point where:
religion = ~100%
technical support = ~0%
So the war over distributions becomes the elephant in the room while the
effectiveness of the actual software begins to decline as a result.
Oracle is in competition with IBM in the database market. In my opinion,
neither of those organizations should be managing a distribution due to the
inherent conflicts of interest involved with respect to the user community at
large; Unless they can disengage personal corporate interests from the process,
which is doubtful and historically never happened.
On Feb 2, 2020, at 2:26 AM, Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wies...@desy.de> wrote:
On 31. Jan 2020, at 19:10, Jon Pruente <jprue...@riskanalytics.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 7:58 PM Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote:
soon to be forced to go to another Linux. The options appear to be drop
EL entirely and go to Ubuntu LTS ("stable") current, or to stay with EL
and use Springdale (Princeton) EL8 when (if?) it is available, or Oracle
8 EL. Thus far, everyone I have contacted who did a clean install of
Is there a reason you have to avoid CentOS? The SL devs have stated that they
will not develop SL8 and instead put their resources into CentOS.
I hate to say this, but CentOS is pretty slow these days getting out daily
updates, minor releases and corresponding SRPMs. No distinction between
security errata and other ones either. SL has been doing better. OL is doing
better, including release 8.
