On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:42 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dax Kelson
<dkelson(a)gurulabs.com> wrote:
>
> Most (all?) of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution.
> Everybody switched, compatibility across distributions was maintained.
Right, because it was driven by the desktop, which besides the kernel
is the only point of technology sharing between vendors that we have.
Everything in between distributions tend to reinvent in their own
little sandbox, which is a tendency we have to fight strongly.
Seriously? Daemons like Apache/Dovecot/postfix/xmpp, etc? the service
startup interfaces? Packaging standards? None of these are desktop or
kernel but there is remarkable consistency b/t distros thanks to things
like the FHS and common use.
-sv