On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:29:48AM +0530, Raju Mathur was caught saying: > defunct. In any case, I'm going to recommend my clients go with > distributions with the following features from now on: > > 1. Not dependent on any single company, individual or organisation. > > 2. Variety of developers and packagers > > 3. Globally distributed set of developers and packagers > > 4. Actively being developed (this could change, but need to try for > this at least) > > At the moment the only significant distribution which seems to meet > these criteria is Debian. Are there any others?
Packaging bugfixes and new versions is not big a deal per se. You would easily find a lot of volunteers to do it. What is needed is a credible source for such packages, so that: 1. It won't cause trojans or other spyware in the packages. 2. In case of one entity going down(Redhat,Debian,etc), others can take over. i.e. a fault tolerant distributed system. 3. Pristine sources could be picked up from the original web sites and verified package metafiles(.spec etc.) can be picked up from these distributed mirrors and combined to form SRPM/RPMs whenever needed. You could have a second tier of sites offering these RPMs, which can be taken apart and checked against the original sources and metafiles when needed. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net --------------------------- Got some news from/for the Free(tm) world in India? Get to be a journo at http://opennews.indianissues.org ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
