On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:22 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:20:36 -0600, Dax Kelson <dkelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Most (all?) of the technologies you mentioned are cross-distribution. > > Everybody switched, compatibility across distributions was maintained. > > Books and brains were free to drop the old ways and just document and > > learn the new ways. > > Actually I'm pretty certain everyone is going to move to tty1 once > benefits are realized. The kernel modesetting and graphical boot > are not exclusive to Fedora. > > -- Pete So far we've had a defacto standard that people have come to rely on. It would be horrible disservice to Linux as a whole if all the distros went their separate ways. Is there a mailing list or infrastructure where the shepherds of various distros can discuss a major changes for the sake of compatibility? If not, there should be. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
