RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

Posted Mar 6, 2004 1:55 UTC (Sat) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)
Parent article: RE: Toward a new kind of 'Linux distribution'

Debian's tasksel is an attempt at what you're describing. But in a distributed project like Debian, the number and size of tasks has expanded to a point that rendered it nearly meaningless.

How do Progeny's "components" go beyond Debian's "tasks"? And if I'm installing from the net on a machine with more than 8 GB of hard drive space anyway, why do I care whether I can select small components as "sub-distributions," instead of having the whole 13,000-package strong Debian distribution available?

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