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Andrew Perrin wrote:
Not that I want to start a distro war, but what's wrong with Debian?
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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