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>Imagine what would be possible if all these fine developers would focus on two or three distributions. You don't think the lessons learned by those developers
by jzelinskie 13y ago
>Imagine what would be possible if all these fine developers would focus on two or three distributions.
You don't think the lessons learned by those developers' experimentation weren't shared and applied in the decision-making process for more prominent distros? In a way, creating a distro is like contributing to all the other distros at the same time. What makes them fine developers is their drive to innovate and try new things so that one day the status quo can improve. Who knows: if all those developers worked on the same few distributions, they may have crashed and burned.
- danieldk 13y agoYou don't think the lessons learned by those developers' experimentation weren't shared and applied in the decision-making process for more prominent distros? Sometimes. But there is also a lot of 'let's take Ubuntu and change the default desktop/wallpaper/DVD package set/...'. Also, it's not as if developers in major distributions such as Debian don't have room to experiment with different approaches. For instance, in Debian, the default init system discussion rages. The most promising candidates are already available in Debian itself.