On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:08:28PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote:
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> 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))
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paul \ /
wisehart >/
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