Re: Rough development plan

OOPS !!

This was ameant to be sent as a reply to Graeme Seatons; message about 
Whitebox linux instead of Fedora.

Sorry about that !

Bob Finch


On Monday 08 December 2003 10:54 am, [email protected] wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2003 10:16 am, Greg Zartman wrote:
> > In concept, porting "e-smith" to a different distro might be a good
> > idea.  In reality, it isn't feasibly for this group to do this.  I don't
> > think you guys realize the undertaking this would be.  SME (e-smith) is
> > so integrated into Redhat that it would take hundreds, if not thousands,
> > of hours to replicate it on another platform.
>
> I had not thought of that, but I definitely agree that Whitebox might well
> be a better fit than fedora. I think that the red hat community will have
> many problems moving from the corporate employee development model to the
> community development model. Mandrake is having many problems right now
> that can often be traced to a very similar change.
>
> I am not saying community development models don't work, but rather that
> distros not built using a community model. These distros have many problems
> adapting to such a community based model when it comes time to deal with
> (but not limited to) the coding issues involved. I long ago moved from
> corporate developed distros to community developed distros because they
> *can* develop easier to manage code in the long run.
>
> Most importantly whitebox-linux could offer a suitable platform but be
> aware that Red Hat may, using various techniques, could make whitebox-linux
> ineffective or too hard to manage. Moving to such a distro that will also
> "evaporate" (again) might be a major time waster, perhaps more than
> deciding to switch now.
>
> What do you guys think ?
>
> Very best regards;
>
> Bob Finch
>
> > Our development time is much better spent on more realistic projects,
> > IMO.
> >
> > Regards,
>
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