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Added: 20110401-canterbury.xml |
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Why yes... we are joining Canterbury. |
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1.1 xml/htdocs/news/20110401-canterbury.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/20110401-canterbury.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/20110401-canterbury.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain |
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Index: 20110401-canterbury.xml |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
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<!DOCTYPE news SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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<news gentoo="yes" category="gentoo"> |
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<poster>robbat2</poster> |
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<date>2011-04-01</date> |
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<title>The Canterbury Project</title> |
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<body> |
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<p>We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. |
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Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly |
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known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really |
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unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary |
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operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually |
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able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity. |
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<p>Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, |
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malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded |
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as openSUSE. |
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</p> |
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<p>Joining the the Canterbury Project Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: |
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"Arch Linux has always been about keeping its technology as simple as possible. |
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Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity |
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for developers, users and of course upstream projects. Canterbury will be the next |
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evolutionary step of Linux distributions." |
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</p> |
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<p>Gerfried Fuchs, who gave a talk about Debian at last year's openSUSE conference, |
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said "While DEX (Debian Derivatives Exchange) might have been a good idea in principle, |
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its point of view is too limited. We need to reach out further for true success."</p> |
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<p>Robin H. Johnson, lead of the Gentoo Infrastructure team, in a panel of core Gentoo |
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developers at SCALE9x: "I really hate compiling-induced downtime. I've been looking |
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forward to installing packages with just a couple of keystrokes. By building on the |
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efforts of other successful distributions, we can take the drudgery out of system |
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maintenance."</p> |
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<p>Michael Prokop, founder of the Grml live CD, can be quoted on the effort that |
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"we managed to create a universal live build framework with grml-live. Our vision was |
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always that it will be universally usable to further the spreading of Free Software."</p> |
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<p>Last year's openSUSE conference had the topic of "Collaboration Across Borders". |
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Klaas Freitag, a respected member of the community, mentioned that "the conference |
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motto was set intentional and actually this is what I had in mind as a positive outcome |
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for the conference."</p> |
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<p>Please be notified that this announce is just the starting point, the necessary |
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changes will happen in the upcoming days. You can use the #canterbury-project hashtag |
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to give us your feedback on |
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<uri link="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23canterbury-project">twitter</uri> or |
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<uri link="http://identi.ca/tag/canterbury-project">identi.ca</uri>.</p> |
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</body> |
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</news> |
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