[Linux-aus] Uniting Linux - good or bad?

John Knight anarchisttomato at yahoo.com.au
Thu Sep 16 13:06:02 UTC 2004


I'm sure we all remember the awful attempt at United
Linux which strayed far from the Linux ethic, but
anything from the Free Standards folk I respect. I
think a lot of people will see this and have a
knee-jerk reaction of, "....but it'll take away
developer freedom!", but they've missed the point
entirely and such a base only goes so far into the end
product anyway.

My personal hope is that the Free Standards Group
adopt and recommend that autopackage be installed as
standard when it hits 1.0 as I see the issues it's
covering as the biggest, yet most overlooked hurdle in
the *nix environment at the moment.

autopackage.org

John Knight

 --- Pia Smith <pia at linux.org.au> wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Looking for community feedback on this. Feel free to
> take it to other
> lists, but please get any useful feedback to either
> OSIA or LA as we are
> putting together a piece on it. 
> 
> So to kick this off:
> 
>
http://news.com.com/Linux+standard+gains+big-name+backers/2100-7344_3-5363262.html).
> It's been implied that the number of Linux versions
> is its weakness:
> 
> - Is the growing number of Linux's its strength, or
> its weakness?
> - Has anything like this been tried before? Are you
> skeptical or not?
> 
> Cheers,
> Pia
> -- 
> Pia Smith <pia at linux.org.au>
> Linux Australia
> 
> 
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