On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 08:14:55AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > If there is a better Debian -Progeny-, also GPL, does it mean that `better' is a very subjective term. progeny will target a different audience then Debian does. the question is not whether debian or progeny is better, but rather which is better *for you* > Debian will become somewhat a testing -beta stage- for Progeny? of course not. if anything Progeny is acting as a beta stage for Debian with some of the things they are venturing into such as hardware autodetection, those developments will -- if debian developers feel its useful and benificial -- be integrated into debian. the progeny developers (some of which are also debian developers) are going to work with debian and give back everything they create. > Also, will there be iso images of Progeny? Or it will be some kind of > apt-get -f -dist-upgrade? for that you have to ask progeny, i believe its thier intention to become a independent distribution, for now they are starting off with debian as a base and simply adding to that. i think debian and progeny will likely remain compatble so you can use parts of either or switch back and forth between them with ease. (similar to storm, and unlike corel) though in the long run they may find it useful to just use Debian and add thier add ons to it, rather then reinventing the wheel and maintianing duplicate copies of all the debian packages. > It probably is too early to tell. At least there is very little chance > of ever being not GPL... As long as investors don't push too hard, or there is *NO* chance of it becoming non-GPL, the GPL forbids it, you cannot take something that is GPL and proprietarize it. progeny could start writing NEW stuff that is proprietary but i don't think the founders would stand for it, and if they did they would lose all respect/support of the Free Software community. > there are clear statements about it in the "constitution" written by > founding fathers. Ian Murdock has stated that Progeny will stick to the ideals of Free software that Debian has, hopefully Progeny will be a totally Free distro targetted and optimized for non-expert users. that is what i understand its going to be. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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