What next?

Mike Hearn mike at navi.cx
Thu Jun 2 20:02:50 UTC 2005


On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:00:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> We don't have the ressources for the "one linux model"

Given that reducing duplication would increase resources, I don't see why
not.

Look at it like this. Before the freedesktop.org efforts, KDE and GNOME
didn't play so well together. There were two choices ahead of the
community:

1) Tell users not to use KDE apps in GNOME or GNOME apps in KDE. If stuff
   breaks, it's their own fault, in other words

2) Standardise

Fortunately, the desktop developers did 2 and now users benefit. Even
better, the whole community benefits because people aren't pointlessly
cloning each others apps anymore (well, not as much). Useful bits of code
like the GtkQt theming engine fill in the bits that are easier to code
than standardise.

Right now for packaging you guys are choosing path (1). But it's worse
than with desktops: there it was only really KDE vs GNOME, but here it's
Fedora vs Ubuntu vs Gentoo vs Mandrake vs SUSE and so on. So the
duplication of effort and cloning of each others work is much worse.

In other words, Thomas is right, we need "1 Linux". Not one distro, but
one set of standards people can write packages and installers to.

thanks -mike




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