Distribution-friendly projects - Part 1

Posted Mar 28, 2008 0:47 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Distribution-friendly projects - Part 1 by Sho
Parent article: Distribution-friendly projects - Part 1

This is shortsighted. Stuff like the X Window System, OpenOffice, TeX, or even {,x}emacs run (and are compiled from the same source!) on a large variety of different systems, from Windows to Linux over all sort of propietary Unix systems and *BSDs.

At least Fedora (after a longish time during which Red Hat shipped heavily patched packages) is relying ever more on working closely with the upstream developers, and shipping as close to vanilla sources as feasible. Several of the Fedora packagers are actually active upstream developers. I'd be surprised if other distributions didn't do likewise.