Re: tlug: Re: Perens on New Distribution

[craigoda@example.com]

From: "Totoro" <riley@example.com>
Subject: tlug: Re: Perens on New Distribution 
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 10:40:18 +0900

riley> >riley> that Bruce Perens is talking about creating a new Linux distribution...
riley> >
riley> >Do you know what the issues were?  Even if he doesn't do this, I would
riley> >be interested in hearing the good and bad points.  Did this have to
riley> >do with the file structure?
riley> 
riley> The Linux Weekly News is at http://lwn.net/ 
riley> 
riley> Of course, now the article is archived, as the item was in the
riley> May 7 edition. Anyhow, it references some traffic on usenet

David,
thanks.  I got the link now.  It is 

   http://lwn.net/980507/perensnewlinux.html

and this is the relevant section IMHO.

    I propose for this system binary, _dependency_, and
    package compatibility with Red Hat, the most popular Linux
    distribution that has made it to LIBC 6. This would guarantee
    the availability of commercial applications for the system.
    Obviously, the easiest way to do that is to derive from Red Hat.

More:

      RPM as the package system - possibly with an APT port later on
        (is that what it's called now?). It's necessary to get the other
        distributions in on the project. We'd have to add a few missing
        features to RPM, but this would be pretty easy to do.

        COAS as a system management framework. Non-interactive install.

        Limited set of interpreters for system tasks and pre-install and
        post-install scripts. How about ANSI shell (_not_ necessarily Bourne
        shell), Python, and everything else is a compiled executable?
        I'm concerned that Perl is a rather messy language compared to
        Python, and both Red Hat and Caldera seem to be focusing on Python.


Okay.  He didn't say that he was going to make the new distribution.
My opinion is that rpm and dpkg are pretty similar, so that's not
a big problem even if it goes this way.  However, it appears that
Debian is still going strong right now and there is no indication
that this would change.   I like Python better than Perl, so this is
fine with me.  

What is APT???

Regards,
Craig

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