"Ideally, for Linux-as-platform users, a distribution should optimize for depth, i.e., to excel in those few features and technologies important to the project at hand."
can't one argue that that might result in distros trying to be too much to all people ? it's very clear that in the past, some distros have furthered development in their particular "focus"...for example, for a while there, Redhat (and maybe Mandrake) wanted to be the distro of easy and nice UIs. TurboLinux has wanted historically to be the "performance" oriented distro, etc.
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Posted by: smitty45 on February 28, 2004 02:14 AM"Ideally, for Linux-as-platform users, a distribution should optimize for depth, i.e., to excel in those few features and technologies important to the project at hand."
can't one argue that that might result in distros trying to be too much to all people ? it's very clear that in the past, some distros have furthered development in their particular "focus"...for example, for a while there, Redhat (and maybe Mandrake) wanted to be the distro of easy and nice UIs. TurboLinux has wanted historically to be the "performance" oriented distro, etc.
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