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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:59, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> I'm a bit concerned that the future of linux on the desktop is going to be |
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> one where your choices are things like Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Gnome OS, |
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> or a "KDE OS." Each one would have its own package managers, repositories, |
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> distros, APIs, etc. Clearly there is some benefit from the vertical |
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> integration (Android and ChromeOS have a very high level of polish, and |
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> Ubuntu is approaching this often by just writing their own stuff). Instead |
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> of working to influence other projects (which can be frustrating), big |
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> distros are looking to just eliminate dependencies outside of themselves. |
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> This will be a big challenge for a smaller distro like Gentoo. Obviously we |
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> can't just go write our own Wayland replacement, even if we did essentially |
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> make our own "systemd" of sorts. |
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you're aware the ChromeOS is built on top of / with Gentoo right ? |
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-mike |