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Re: What's wrong with debian?



In article <[🔎] 1109628493.6078.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>,
Hodgins Family  <ehodgins@telusplanet.net> wrote:
>I want to submit this following suggestion (as a straw man): The project
>is getting too BIG. Too many programs, too many platforms, too many
>things to maintain, too many security releases needed.
>
>Attack this idea or support it. If it gets support maybe we could think
>about a slimmer Debian (even if it means losing support for my 80386,
>Sob!)

I agree. Debian should be split into a small OS base, desktop base
(X/gnome/KDE), and "applications". All of these can and should be
released independently.

It sounds simple but figuring out how to do that exactly is
probably very very complicated.

Mike.



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