From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39BF8519.427B985C@relog.ch> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:46:01 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Reply-To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mberglund CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Michael Schmitz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Roles for distributions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: mberglund wrote: > > > It also seems like the lost art of making an OS the SAME from platform > > > to platform is just that, LOST. This is another lofty goal in the > > > project. > > > > > > I mean, it is hard enough to learn a new hardware platform, without > > > having to learn a new version of linux(or unix, for that matter). And > > > even redhat has not been able to make thier distro the same from > > > platform to platform. > > > > With Debian being the only distribution that runs on all my boxes, I still > > have to find the differences among Debian on the different platforms that > > are not caused by actual differences in the hardware configuration. > > Well, the way you phrased this helps my point(and I am assuming that is > what you intended). This is exactly one of the big beefs my little band > has with the linux population right now. We hope to fix help fix it, want > to help? Please elaborate on this, I'm curious how you intend to fix the hardware differences. ;) > And if debian is perfect across all the platforms, great! The update > system is still not what we want. And if you try the other, you might be > suprised at how much you may like it. Go plop FreeBSD on a system ,and > wait a few weeks, and then do an update. They have a _good_ idea. All I am > saying is lets try to use it. There is not ONE good reason that I have > found not to make the attempt. I currently have no box to play with, but I also find the concept interesting. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and the DRI project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/