Christian Haugan Toldnes writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i think that the *good old people* can still contribute and help out the >> community :) dont think that doing that mean helping the "bad" comodo guys, >> coz even if i release a patch somewhere else they can still take it and use >> it... this is the free software world :) > > If I'm ever going to contribute to a Linux distribution again, it will > be a distribution I actually enjoy using. I haven't used Trustix since > the early fall of 2005, and am really having trouble constructing a > scenario where TSL would be a better choice than Ubuntu. Not because of > politics, but because TSL does not offer anything I don't get from my > distribution of choice. TSL is that much limited in flexibility and > availability of software.
anything not included i do it myself... about flexibility...also understanding whats going on in your system make me flexible to change or redo anything i dun like :) > >> btw..i dont think the new tsl team are bad guys :) they just had been put in >> a bad situation caused by a bad commercial decision... > > The are not bad guys. They are really nice guys that I've come to care > about. They have, however, extremely limited man-power, and not that > much experience. In the end they are trying to fix a product that will > never be able to compete with larger commercially sponsored > distributions, like Ubuntu, simply because of the massive lack in > experienced developers and active user community. And let's face it... A > user community of 50 active members really doesn't qualify. Sorry, I > would love for TSL to be a really relevant distribution, but it's long > since I understood that it never will be. :) > >> also... all nice distributions are user contributed.. so why not tsl ?? why >> sit down and just wait the release to come out ? do something! > > You are asking the wrong question.. The right question would be "Why do > we need another Linux distribution?". If anyone care to answer that > question in details, I would be very much enlightened. ;) i first used tsl just to make my coadmin mad (a debian fan)... i keep using it just because i like it...is like with cars, if you like bmw you wont buy a mercedes even if it might be better... why another ? coz i always hated to follow the mass.. so i can even build and maintain my own personal distro just for fun... if you ever pay a visit to switzerland (maybe you like snowboarding) i'll pay you a beer and we can discuss this ;) beers Fremen > > > c > > -- > Christian Haugan Toldnes > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list tsl-discuss@lists.trustix.org http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
