On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:02 AM, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbide...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> No one said that stuff should change "unexpectedly" (and that's not > >> what currently happens either). > >> Actually its the opposite you want to consider the "whole picture" > >> when doing changes and not think > >> of independent pieces stuck together. That's why the "lets build some > >> core platform and put stuff on top > >> of it" is flawed. > >> -- > >> devel mailing list > >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > > Honestly, I keep seeing this argument in this thread, but it doesn't > square > > with reality. The concept of an OS and all of its apps as a monolithic > > distribution with a single release schedule is unique to Linux. Every > other > > major OS (with the exception perhaps of Windows) strictly differentiates > > between core OS and apps. > > Splitting apps and OS makes sense. But the "OS" is more then just the > kernel and a few low level libraries. > The OS (without apps) goes up to X/wayland and the desktop environment. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
I would argue that a tri-level separation is best for Linux, A small core OS, a "System" layer which contains (X, Wayland, DE, etc), and apps. Which circles us back to rings (no pun intended). -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell
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