On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:45:05AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > I can think of a few ways to offer the above. The first is a standalone > distribution, based on debian but with various enhancements (not a novel > idea, by any means). We could either base this on testing, doing snapshot > releases every 3-6 months, and offering security fixes, or > on stable w/ various backports. We would probably > have a stripped-down installer based on d-i, w/ the stock kernel being > similar to redhat's kernel. > > Another way would be to have a debian sub-project; this would have a > kernel that includes extra (enterprise) features > (kernel-image-2.4.22-enterprise-1-686smp), amongst other things. I'd also > like to see enhancements to d-i, work done to ease things like php into > testing, and (if based around testing) security updates for testing.
If the sub-project approach would mean that the new packages and enhancements would be folded into Debian, then I think that is definitely preferable. I do not think that basing it on testing is the best approach; in my experience, enterprises prefer a longer (stable) release cycle than testing's daily churn. -- - mdz