On Monday 10 December 2001 3:19 pm, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: I really envy you your knowledges, but I am an old guy and I don't think that I have the stamina to aquire that broad and deep knowledge. So my letter was more of the style, put a new log in the fire, and see if it takes on. What I see is a 'kernel' that can do more and more things, but as all these things are added to the 'motor' it gets bloated (like emacs, it is a little OS in its own).
Contrary to this a stripped down 'newbie Mdk' could still be a sportcar with only one of everything. As an old teacher I know that if you show most pupils 5 different ways to solv a problem, the first example might be a nightmare. If you show only one solution, then the example is a piece of cake, or just a copy. According to, I think Albert E, most people don't think creatively, as he did, they just extrapolate or interpolate from someone else's thinking or model. Thus the basic needs might be mapped as in your three examples. Keep thinking along your lines, they are good! regards guran > So there will have 3 main lines of products : > +standard ( aka Standard ): polyvalent, average everywhere ( desktop, > games, server, firewall ), many be ( i.e bleding edge packages ). > +server/enterprise ( aka Pro Suite ): fully test, QA. No bleding edge > for packages/features unless there is at least one month of heavy > stress. > +gaming/desktop ( aka powerpack/gaing edition ) : bleding edge > apps/features, preempt kernel, Winex, StarOffice 6.0 or Hancom Office ( > http://www.hancom.com/en/product_service/lhr4.html ). > > Besides this you can have some very specialise distro ( SNF, tiny server > i.e only provides servers and servers tools with a minimal X/wm for > graphical conf if needed, the kind of server you put in a cupborad ). -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.16.6mdk-1-1mdk version:2001:12:08:18:54
