I just learned about DCC, the "Debian Common Core Alliance". It's an
attempt to make Debian relevant again by essentializing what Debian
is, making it completely LSB-compliant, and making it so that others
can use it in their own distros. So, it would be easy for, say,
Knoppix, to take DCC, add on what it wanted, and put it out there. I
guess it's like how the kernel is it's own project, and is put into
whatever distro wants to use it.
Mepis, Knoppix, Linspire, Xandros, UserLinux, GnuLinEx, Progeny,
Credative, and Sun Wah Linux (distributor to 141,624 school desktops
in the Jiangsu province of China) have joined the DCC. Notably absent
is Ubuntu.
Why no Ubuntu? Mark Shuttleworth says why here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth
"I'm not prepared to devote scarce resources to an initiative that I
believe will ultimately fail. [...] I would encourage members of the
Ubuntu community to participate in the DCC discussions if they have
time and are interested. If the DCC produces good code, we should
merge that into Ubuntu releases, and it should be easy to do so."
What a jerk. I could have understood something like, "We want to go
our own direction." or "We're trying to make Ubuntu the best it can
be, and we have different ideas than the DCC does." But to say, Well,
we'll wait until you come up with something worth taking.
Obviously, if he's interested in taking the possible fruits of the
project, then it doesn't make sense to stick a knife in it before it
has a chance to prove itself.
Ian Murdock thinks this is the start of a renaissance for Debian.
-todd
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