Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:21:08AM +0200, Alex de Landgraaf <alextreme@xs4all.nl> was heard to say:
> Also, Debian focuses on its rock-solid stability and sturdiness. This is
> wonderful, but Debian isn't moving very fast, IMHO.
The reason this is a problem, IMO, is primarily the recent explosion
of "end-user"-type free software. Certain other operating systems only
release a major new version every few years, and they seem to be doing
fine in terms of being up-to-date-enough.
(that isn't to say that a project which focuses on backporting
GUI-ish to the current stable wouldn't be useful)
> There are so many
> packages avalible and they all need to work well to be added to the
> distribution. Using Woody would (pun intended :) work, but it still is
> quite a hassle to set things up "like they should be". My proposal is to
> only take those packages that would be needed in an end-user system to
> create a more sleek, fine-tuned distribution where the focus lies on
> effectiveness towards the end-user.
It's not obvious to me that you couldn't just fork/rewrite boot-floppies,
build a custom set of CDs with the subset of the archive that is useful
to your project, and write a non-sucky system configuration tool.
Daniel
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