On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:09 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > EDIT: ah jeez ... it's that damn time of year again. haha i always > forget about the day of fools until i'm 3 seconds from spamming my > gullibility to the world. > > sending anyway because i already wrote it ;-) > > C Anthony > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > so i sorta meandered to the debian.org homepage randomly, and was > surprised to see this: > > [ it's a link, go ahead and click it :-) ] > http://www.debian.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------ > "We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. > Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions > formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux. > > The target is to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand > up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show > off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together > for a common goal instead of creating more diversity." > ------------------------------------------------------ > Features > > The Canterbury distribution will combine the best of the linux world > to another game changer for the good of the users: > > Simple as Arch - technologically simple and bleeding edge. > Stable as Debian - highly dependable. > Malleable as Gentoo - you get what you really want. > Live as Grml - readily usable. > Openminded as openSUSE - broad and welcoming for everyone. > ------------------------------------------------------ > (2011-04-01) - Public Announce > Today we came to the point where we feel comfortable to announce the > joined effort to the general public. Please watch this space over the > next days. > ------------------------------------------------------ > > looks like it was announced today-ish (er tomorrow for me ...), so > what i'm wondering if there is any kind of official affiliation here? > did anyone here (particularly those close to development processes) > know about this? at any rate, sounds pretty cool, should be a good > thing. > > C Anthony > This post is worthy of poking out of the shadows for. -- - Vincent Schumaker
