Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 07, 2005 04:55 AM
Putting eggs in one basket, as what's-his-face suggests, is good for developers to a great extent. Rather than have 2 gajillion distros, each of them maintained and used by one person, lets get a few thousand all-encompassing distros and direct work towards developing them, rather than making minor offshoots. It's also good for the users. Distrowatch, as stated, numbers some hundreds of distros, most of which are used by few people. Do we really need all those others, when RH, Slack, Knoppix, etc. can solve most of our problems? To a degree, which is why I qualified that statement. I still don't believe in having myriad other systems for no obvious use. Of course, if it works both ways, I can understand and approve that. Claiming to run your own distro must be an excellent pick-up line among Linux geeks. Just put your work into the greater project, please.
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Re:egoism
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 07, 2005 04:55 AMIt's also good for the users. Distrowatch, as stated, numbers some hundreds of distros, most of which are used by few people. Do we really need all those others, when RH, Slack, Knoppix, etc. can solve most of our problems? To a degree, which is why I qualified that statement. I still don't believe in having myriad other systems for no obvious use.
Of course, if it works both ways, I can understand and approve that. Claiming to run your own distro must be an excellent pick-up line among Linux geeks. Just put your work into the greater project, please.
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