On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:04, Steve Dibb wrote: > > be very interesting and exciting. It appears that this merger is going > > to produce a very exciting meta distro a lot like debian. > > What does that mean anyway, a meta distro? Gentoo claims to be one too, > but I never could figure it out.
I was using the term rather loosely. I would say that debian is a meta distro because any distro that is debian based can install the debian packages, which are consistant amongst themselves. A distribution of distributions, perhaps. In this case there will be no more Redhat 10 or 11. Instead of the way things in redhat used to be done, Fedora will be a "living" distro where the latest packages are always online and the distro can be upgrade continually. Like Debian, I imagine that there will be a testing, unstable, and stable streams. Rawhide will continue to be the "testing" branch. Normal users will probably use the "unstable" branch and RedHat Enterprise Linux will be based on "stable." Another definition of metadistro would be that multiple versions and distros come out of the same package stream. This isn't a problem, since all the packages int the stream will be packaged consistantly with eachother, eliminating much of the rpm-hell, which by the way would be present in debian if it wasn't for a sense amongst debian users and developers that packages must be as consistant as possible. Just a couple of guesses. I suppose I shouldn't be using words I can't define, but I do that all the time, so why change... :) I must say that I'm excited for this direction that redhat is taking, at least as a freeloading home user. Makes redhat what debian is, in the sense of community. Michael > > Steve > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
