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Android source availableAndroid source availablePosted Oct 22, 2008 15:24 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: Android source available by bcbarnes Parent article: Android source available
Are the critics right then? Has Linux so fragmented (like Unix did) that "Linux" users must have these arguments over which distros should be supported? Or is this just another excuse to attack Ubuntu. I use mostly CentOS on my servers, and Ubuntu on my home desktop. They are both exellent distros, but they specialize in different areas. Why do critics of Ubuntu operate on such a hair trigger?
BTW, is your lab, and a significant portion of the HPC community planning on building mobile phone OSes? On existing equipment? If you, and they were going to, would you, and they be capable of installing Ubuntu?
Or are Linux installation procedures so fragmented, as well, that expertise in installing CentOS does not transfer to installing other Linux distros?
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Android source available Posted Oct 23, 2008 2:15 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
> Are the critics right then? Has Linux so fragmented (like Unix did) that "Linux" users must have these arguments over which distros should be supported? Or is this just another excuse to attack Ubuntu.
Both.
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It used to be that Linux distributions differed quite a bit for very significant reasons. Some provided configuration tools and interfaces that were proprietary in a attempt to do the 'value added' approach to getting licensing costs from linux. Some people dissagreed about how you should approach package management systems and so on and so forth.
Nowadays everybody uses pretty much the same stuff. The major differences are going to be Redhat configuration tools vs Debian's package management system. Other then that people are switching to upstart, they are using network-manager for desktops, dbus, packagekit, policykit. Pretty soon they should be using about the same initramfs environments and so and so forth. Much more the same then different.
IMO one of the major goals for distributions is to eliminate the differences in the so-called 'Linux plumbing' and end up using, more or less, identical systems on the low-level. Then use the same core as a basis to then branch out and do their own thing. Update packages, experiment, etc etc.. but always each time they do a release they re-base off the same core system that they share.
This, I think, will end up going to make application developer's (open source and otherwise) lives a lot easier, as well as system integraters and people that need to document how the system works for normal folks.
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As far as Ubuntu-hate goes. It's pointless and misdirected.
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