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. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
