But I'd like to ask: *why* do you - all - maintain different distributions?
It is obvious why I created a distribution:
It was done in order to create a distribution as none did exist before.
Why did other people create _different_ distributions?
Jörg
Well, you answered a question I didn't ask. Joerg - we have to respect
you for forging ahead as you did.
But why do you continue to want to have your own?
Why did the others start theirs? Well, they all had different
objectives. I don't think you can begrudge
a group of guys working together in India - the geographical location,
language issues, and proximity
of a team is an issue in itself. Martin's focussing on SPARC. Nexenta
has a focus that is clearly at odds
with your standards focus - would you have welcomed a team who said they
wanted to use apr and
appe Ubuntu?
The question isn't 'why then?' but 'what now?'.
The zones facility wasn't there then, nor Xen. The soft switch for
personalities for nexenta wasn't there then.
It should now be easier to have a common core and support all the extant
userland flavours, shouldn't it?
Isn't the battle to avoid fragmentation and make sure that the core
system is improved in the general sense and
these different flavours can be supported easily - and referably all at
the same time?
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