On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:59, Rich Freeman wrote: > I'm a bit concerned that the future of linux on the desktop is going to be > one where your choices are things like Android, ChromeOS, Ubuntu, Gnome OS, > or a "KDE OS." Each one would have its own package managers, repositories, > distros, APIs, etc. Clearly there is some benefit from the vertical > integration (Android and ChromeOS have a very high level of polish, and > Ubuntu is approaching this often by just writing their own stuff). Instead > of working to influence other projects (which can be frustrating), big > distros are looking to just eliminate dependencies outside of themselves. > This will be a big challenge for a smaller distro like Gentoo. Obviously we > can't just go write our own Wayland replacement, even if we did essentially > make our own "systemd" of sorts.
you're aware the ChromeOS is built on top of / with Gentoo right ? -mike
