Not that I want to start a distro war, but what's wrong with Debian? ap
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Magnus wrote: > It's becoming increasingly apparent that the community needs an > RPM-based distro that is community driven rather than profit driven. > Profit isn't a bad thing, and I wish Red Hat & Novell well in their > commercial ventures, but their business models do not serve > self-supporting shops. Many orgs have been winging it with Red Hat > Linux (the consumer distro) and have expressed a lack of confidence in > the Fedora Project. > > While this project doesn't perfectly meet my needs either, I've started > participating in the cAos-el project ( http://www.caosity.org/ ) which > is basically taking RHAS 2.1 and augmenting it from there. I'm > personally working on a related project, based on RHEL 3 (for those of > you that were following in IRC last night, I've got about 1,000 binary > RPM's done now). Anyway the goal is to have an umbrella organization > for packaging up an enterprise class distribution with long life > cycles. There is considerable financial support coming from some big > names to make this project happen. > > I've only just signed on yesterday so I don't know all the ins and outs > of the project yet. I'm just raising it as one alternative to all of > the whining aimed at Red Hat (and now Novell) which I too am guilty of. > There is already quite a lot of activity in this distro, despite what > the sparse web site would suggest, so check out the mailing lists & IRC > channel to learn more. > > I know with Windows we weren't empowered to do much more than b*tch > when we were handed changes that we didn't like. This is Open Source. > Each and every one of us is empowered to fix things we don't like. > > -- > > C. Magnus Hedemark > http://trilug.org/~chrish > "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not > bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - > Mark Twain > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
