Blue,
I hear what you are saying when you talk about
dependencies and other issues that occur. Although
Mandrake itself has released a single purpose distro.
(Ie. Firewall)
I'm just trying to provide a business perspective.
What would be the downside of creating a version of
Mandrake for servers handling specific tasks that do
not change from business to business like email or a
file server. What about backup? Again a specific task
that all businesses need.
Linux zealots often forget there is a world outside of
their chosen OS. Instead of trying to discredit
anything different look at the benefits of a new way
of thinking.
The real reason I brought this up is because Microsoft
is looking to squeeze a dollar out of every businesses
nuts when XP comes out. If Mandrake provided a viable
option to MS's control in the business environment I
think they could gain a huge market share.
Shad
--- Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> S N wrote:
> >
> Creative thoughts, but I feel a little uncomfortable
> with it. In fact,
> the other day (yesterday) I was pondering a distro
> that wasnt a distro.
> Just a platform, and a base off which to install
> stuff from other
> sources. Was pondering the way ximian's stuff
> worked, was studying
> various models. Not too sure I liked it. For one,
> two windozey. It
> just cant hold together like the integrated
> 'distribution of
> applications'. two, with the way just about
> everything in the linux
> world is still -devel if it is any good, and just
> the way...well, ya
> ever notice how you cant seem to upgrade one app
> without upgrading all
> the others? see, i suppose that this concept is for
> an all static
> distribution (if there are any stampede developers
> listening that
> remember this discussion we had at the last few
> meetings). Because like
> windoze where it dont matter the other apps because
> every app will use
> its own libraries, even if 30 other apps use em.
> And nothing ever
> changes. noone ever upgrades just because of the
> way it is, not free,
> closed source, and thus not widely available in the
> matter that linux
> proggies are. But no, this is not the way to go.
> not for mandrake.
> not yet. Cuz where i was goin earlier, with the
> rapid pace of
> development, one couldnt upgrade one app. it
> wouldnt work. so we have
> distros, distros like 80 and distros like cooker and
> the user need not
> worry about it. Just *DONT* LIKE IT! So anyway...
> But this idea you (sn) have...nasty. Many holes in
> that idea (many many
> many) that would have to be shored up before even a
> first attempt. And
> it would require vast amounts of resources taken
> from mandrake to this
> new concept while mdk was still in production just
> to develop and test
> it. takes years my boy. it would ruin the distro
> because of the strain
> on resources. bad b-ad b-a-d B-a-d BAD! BAD! BAD!
> BAD!
> I wanna throw a tantrum over here...
> -Blue
>
>
>
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