On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 15:10 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > If you have any insights on what the universal distribution needs as the > > default, please by all means post them! But otherwise, please lets stop > > invoking the universal distro. > > Right. It's mostly meaningless at this level.
I don't think so. There is really a huge difference between what you can do with Debian as compared to what you can do with RHEL or SLES. Try setting up a cross-compiler environment or try reading any filesystem that isn't mainstream such as HFS/HFS+ or install some obscure package for medical sciences. We shouldn't really diminish the value that comes with Debian's universal usefulness. Of course, if your use case is installing Linux on a standard x86_64 laptop for internet browsing, you might not see that flexibility, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
