On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:26:27PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Maybe I was too long winded, or failed to communicate my point: a
stable (bug fix only updates, slow feature release), strongly FOSS,
strongly upstream seems to be what some (I am not going to make
assumptions about numbers) want. I see two problems with this:
Where, keep in mind, "slow" is defined as twice a year, right?
1) the nature of such a distro would make it attractive to a smaller
percentage of the Linux community
Do you have a basis for this claim? I think it's the opposite.
2) the only aspect of that that would be unique is the commitment to
upstream -- something which will be appreciated by few
I don't think that's fair at all. Fedora is unique in a lot of ways, and a
waterfall of updates isn't essential to that uniqueness.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences