Re: Roles for distributions

mberglund wrote:

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It also seems like the lost art of making an OS the SAME from platform
to platform is just that, LOST. This is another lofty goal in the
project.

I mean, it is hard enough to learn a new hardware platform, without
having to learn a new version of linux(or unix, for that matter). And
even redhat has not been able to make thier distro the same from
platform to platform.

With Debian being the only distribution that runs on all my boxes, I still
have to find the differences among Debian on the different platforms that
are not caused by actual differences in the hardware configuration.

Well, the way you phrased this helps my point(and I am assuming that is
what you intended). This is exactly one of the big beefs my little band
has with the linux population right now. We hope to fix help fix it, want
to help?

Please elaborate on this, I'm curious how you intend to fix the hardware
differences. ;)

And if debian is perfect across all the platforms, great! The update
system is still not what we want. And if you try the other, you might be
suprised at how much you may like it. Go plop FreeBSD on a system ,and
wait a few weeks, and then do an update. They have a _good_ idea. All I am
saying is lets try to use it. There is not ONE good reason that I have
found not to make the attempt.

I currently have no box to play with, but I also find the concept interesting.


Michel


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and the DRI project

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