Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution
> BTW: What is the current state of Dominik's project (FreeLinux (?)).
No messages regarding its progress or lack thereof for the past year.
> "Real developers" tend to disklike marketing.
Don't tell that to my colleauges at Pixar. Or most other commercial firms.
As far as I can tell they only dislike _bad_ marketing.
> You didn't tell us what this marketing team is going to do.
Tell us how to please the user, mostly. There is some gap between the user
and developer that the marketing people can help to bridge.
> We've been through this before. dpkg's is design is good. Someone has
> to fix the bugs.
Actually, RPM's design is good too. It's pretty much a clone of dpkg.
We seem to have established that it has the things Jason thought were
missing.
> Do you mean POSIX shell? I have never seen an ANSI shell specification.
Right.
> > I'm concerned that Perl is a rather messy language compared to
> > Python, and both Red Hat and Caldera seem to be focusing on Python.
>
> There is no point in asking for holy wars.
No, I was just asking for a smaller base system. That means someone has
to choose.
Thanks
Bruce
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