On Monday 08 December 2003 10:16 am, Greg Zartman wrote: > In concept, porting "e-smith" to a different distro might be a good > idea. In reality, it isn't feasibly for this group to do this. I don't > think you guys realize the undertaking this would be. SME (e-smith) is > so integrated into Redhat that it would take hundreds, if not thousands, > of hours to replicate it on another platform.
I had not thought of that, but I definitely agree that Whitebox might well be a better fit than fedora. I think that the red hat community will have many problems moving from the corporate employee development model to the community development model. Mandrake is having many problems right now that can often be traced to a very similar change. I am not saying community development models don't work, but rather that distros not built using a community model. These distros have many problems adapting to such a community based model when it comes time to deal with (but not limited to) the coding issues involved. I long ago moved from corporate developed distros to community developed distros because they *can* develop easier to manage code in the long run. Most importantly whitebox-linux could offer a suitable platform but be aware that Red Hat may, using various techniques, could make whitebox-linux ineffective or too hard to manage. Moving to such a distro that will also "evaporate" (again) might be a major time waster, perhaps more than deciding to switch now. What do you guys think ? Very best regards; Bob Finch > > Our development time is much better spent on more realistic projects, IMO. > > Regards, -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
