On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Dan Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've never really understood the distro smackdowns honestly. I think the > one > > thing that irks me most is the long held and I believe false idea that > > certain distros support certain hardware while others don't. Given that > > hardware support is a kernel thing, 3rd party modules like > > madwifi/nvidia/ati not withstanding. I do believe redhat does incorporate > > some non-mainline kernel bits that do support certain features not found > in > > other distros but they release patches that would allow anyone to add $x > > support. > > I think there's plenty to differentiate distros, and as you say, it's > generally not hardware support. Freedom, distance from upstream, > community, frequency of release, and stability are a few of the real > differences, IMO. > > -- > Dan Young > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Dan, I can agree. The one and only thing I'd love to see which i think would help greatly in adoption is a common packaging system/dependency resolution system. I haven't played much with apt based systems but I do like yum/packagekit, it used to be a PITA but it has definitely matured over the years. I seriously doubt that this will ever happen though. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
