Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:10:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has the foretold fragmentation of Linux begun? Message-ID: <20020821021026.41265.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020820095718.A20131@blackhelicopters.org>
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--- Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:19:45AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > > My impression is that the Linux distros are consolidating, not > > diversifying. My guess is that in a few years there will only be > two > > or three serious contenders. Some Linux people say that's the > case > > today. Certainly people are beginning to realise the > disadvantages of > > the current plethora of distros. > > One other comment here, to drag this back to *FreeBSD* advocacy: > > Many of the so-called distros out there now are actually based on > one > of the big distros, with only one or two changes. These distros > die > after a release or two. (Admittedly, some of these 1-2 changes can > be > quite large, i.e., using KDE instead of GNOME.) > > We do something very analagous by providing the ability for people > to > build their own custom releases. > > If anything, the roll-your-own-distro market might be a prime > candidate for conversion to FreeBSD. We provide a "distro-building > toolchain," where you can change anything you like and build a > custom > FreeBSD, completely from source, with whatever level of > GPL-ification > you prefer. > If only I could agree on that...I tried to roll my own cd a while back, but gave up when I found out that I had to get a Gig-ish from CVS (Handbook mentions that)! All i wanted was a cd with freebsd built from the dource i had, and with the packages/ports I already had, but nah. left cvsup running overnight on my dialup and it still wasn't done, so nah. Shame, that. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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