RE: Rough development plan

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:06:47PM -0800, Des Dougan wrote:
> >
> > Given Red Hat's stated direction, and the lack of clarity of how Fedora
> > Core will develop, might v 7.0 be the time to address basing the server
> > on a different distribution to provide a more stable base than FC may be
> > able to provide?
>
> Which distribution did you have in mind?  Theoretically, a switch to
> Debian (for example) isn't too drastic because the core configuration
> and architecture of E-smith is in the Perl template/events structure.
> In practice it would be a huge amount of work and the upgrade
> path would be a real challenge.

I think a move to a stable distro like Debian would have a number of
advantages (not least of which might be a new pool of willing volunteers!).
It also has the best update/install system (in APT) that I have come across.

I can see that the upgrade path would be a big issue though.


Dan.


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