On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> No one said that stuff should change "unexpectedly" (and that's not >> what currently happens either). >> Actually its the opposite you want to consider the "whole picture" >> when doing changes and not think >> of independent pieces stuck together. That's why the "lets build some >> core platform and put stuff on top >> of it" is flawed. >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > Honestly, I keep seeing this argument in this thread, but it doesn't square > with reality. The concept of an OS and all of its apps as a monolithic > distribution with a single release schedule is unique to Linux. Every other > major OS (with the exception perhaps of Windows) strictly differentiates > between core OS and apps. Splitting apps and OS makes sense. But the "OS" is more then just the kernel and a few low level libraries. The OS (without apps) goes up to X/wayland and the desktop environment. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
