On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:42 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dax Kelson <dkelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Most (all?) of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution. > > Everybody switched, compatibility across distributions was maintained. > > Right, because it was driven by the desktop, which besides the kernel > is the only point of technology sharing between vendors that we have. > Everything in between distributions tend to reinvent in their own > little sandbox, which is a tendency we have to fight strongly. > Seriously? Daemons like Apache/Dovecot/postfix/xmpp, etc? the service startup interfaces? Packaging standards? None of these are desktop or kernel but there is remarkable consistency b/t distros thanks to things like the FHS and common use. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
