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OT: CyanogenMod, Debian, etc.OT: CyanogenMod, Debian, etc.Posted Jun 27, 2012 15:51 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: OT: CyanogenMod, Debian, etc. by debacle Parent article: CyanogenMod 9.0-rc1 available
Essentially, yes. Since it appears that the original poster is lamenting that there isn't the equivalent of Debian for Android, as a alternative to using the anarchistic model that Cyanogenmod uses.
Personally I think that Linux distributions can learn a lot from Android. Specifically: that package consistency and compatibility between distributions matters massively even though everybody pretends it doesn't.
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OT: CyanogenMod, Debian, etc. Posted Jun 27, 2012 21:38 UTC (Wed) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]
Never mind the packaging, the ability to instal and upgrade applications independent of the OS, and vice versa.
My first Android device was an X10 mini pro running 1.6. I upgraded to 2.1. Then I upgraded to one of the Cyanogen-derived X10 2.2 releases. Then I got an Xperia Mini Pro running 2.3. Now I have 4.0 on it. Through that time I've been able to install and write applications that ran on 1.6 through to 4.0 without recompiling, and upgrade the OS under them; conversely I've been able to upgrade some applications to significant new releases without having to upgrade my whole operating system.
Desktop Linux is a pile of shit by comparison, from a user perspective, no matter how many times people stick their fingers in their ears and chant "la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you-users-don't-want-that".
OT: CyanogenMod, Debian, etc. Posted Jun 28, 2012 9:19 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
There's actually few people that goes like that. Even some hight profile kernel hackers have acknowledged that distros have to change their desktop efforts in that direction. See https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/V2t57... for reference.
But one thing is realizing that something has to be done, and another completely different is making it happen. Distros here are in fact part of the problem, because for many current Linux users they are "good enough".
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