Re: ok, now for my paranoid ranting
Hi,
>>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk> writes:
Luis> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> If Debian GNU/Linux has so little intrinsic worth that we need
>> be scared of another free project may one day supplant us, then we
>> deserve to be supplanted.
Luis> I agree with this. But I don't think this is the issue. I just
Luis> don't see enough flexibility from the other side to have me go
Luis> out of my way to accommodate them. Quite on the contrary, it
Luis> seems to me that it's taken for granted that theirs is the
Luis> better solution and therefore we need to accommodate it. Quite
Luis> frankly, I don't think I want to participate on this terms. But
Luis> then there is enough people in Debian to do it regardless of
Luis> what I do and therefore my opinion doesn't carry any weight.
Umm, I don't think this is quite a Debian thing. RMS asked for
people to help the HURD developers package up packages as .deb
packages, rather than .rpm packages. A few of us agreed, and shall be
volunteering time for it.
We are systems integrators. We have built a framework to allow
software from multiple sources to fit in our framework, and to
cooperate with each other. The HURD is not ver different from TeTeX,
X11, GNOME ...
No one is planning on merging away GNU/Linux (at least not for
the next few years). However, the HURD is still evolving -- if they
want to change stuff to be more closely unified with Debian, why
should we fight that?
Debian GNU/Linux is quite mature compared to Debian GNU/Hurd;
it is reasonable to expect most of the changes to occur in HURD
packaging and standards.
Personally, I like the ambitous nature of the HURD. I shall
start multi booting soon.
manoj
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