What is Digg?2 Comments
- antix, on 06/18/2008, -0/+4This is as it should be. Considered from an evolutionary standpoint, the better package management systems and the better distros will have more users, larger communities, and all of the benefits that accrue from that. There are really only a handful of distros worth bothering with anyway. The rest are for people with very specific interests or requirements. Why tell them they can't have the distro they want? This argument is aimless.
- mossblaser, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1No there aren't:
If there isn't a demand for a distro it disappears, if there is a demand for it it stays and thus is serving a purpose others aren't so it should continue to exist.
Also with regards to the package manager "problem", in reality you only really need to worry about 3 (4 if you count gentoo which really deals with all that itself very nicely) - debian based systems and RPM based systems and then the generic tarball of binary or source. Really, having 3 formats is not a bad compromise for a much better suiting to the task at hand.
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