>compare the level of robustness and transparency of Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE packaging to that of the "I cooked a ROM, download it here!" culture in the a

>compare the level of robustness and transparency of Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE packaging to that of the "I cooked a ROM, download it here!" culture in the android world. I don't really understand what your point is here -- a ROM is an image of the operating system, and as far as I know the situation is the same with mainstream Linux. You typically install a distro by downloading the iso from the web and then running it.