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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> part of). For example, if eventually you can't run gnome without |
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> systemd where does that leave bsd gentoo users? |
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Is Mesa support on BSD really all that up-to-date these days? I don't |
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expect that they keep up with bugfixes that well. For instance, Radeon |
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works best with KMS + Gallium and afaik that has no driver for BSD at |
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all. I don't think GNOME Shell is stable on BSD at all. |
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> Gentoo is about |
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> choice, and various upstream efforts are moving in the direction of |
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> giving users only one choice - take it or leave it. |
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If you're arguing purely on the basis of BSD, I think it's a lost |
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cause. They're so far behind Linux that it's not even funny anymore. |
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> How do you |
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> install KDE and Gnome on the same system when they eventually want |
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> different sysvinit implementations. |
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I doubt that's going to happen, though. No DE other than GNOME is |
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interested in vertical integration. Even if someone is, it's a |
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technical problem to be solved with a technical solution. "Every |
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problem in computer science can be solved by adding another layer of |
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indirection". |
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> Will the RedHat and Ubuntu of the |
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> future have no more in common than Tivo and Android do today? |
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Setting aside the silly parts of comparison you've made, the rest is |
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already true from the user's PoV. The two have drastically different |
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UIs, and their packages are incompatible (rpm vs deb, yum vs apt). If |
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some applications are indeed common between the two, it's no surprise |
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since most of those run on Windows too. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |
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