On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:08:28PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > > I don't read this as some kind of "let's forget about mainline and do our > own thing". Rather I read it as others have: let's put together media and > audio software that all works together and leave out the stuff we don't > need. I see your point, Lee, but there is nothing to stop the developers of > a slim-downed, more specific distro contributing back to mainline. > Can you elaborate on "contributing back to mainline" ? while your at it, can you elaborate on "slim-downed" ? WRT "stuff you don't need" *all* distros support addition and removal of packages. ask your local sys-admin what he feels about supporting more than 1 flavor of linux. (its a lot of work to remember how to do conceptually the same thing on all of the diff linuxes.(linuces whtever)) -- paul \ / wisehart >/ <//////$> |\|\|\