DEs need to build their own distros [LWN.net]

DEs need to build their own distros

Posted Feb 7, 2012 22:44 UTC (Tue) by Company (guest, #57006)
In reply to: DEs need to build their own distros by jonobacon
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu

Of course it hasn't. There wouldn't be a Fedora anymore after that ;)
You just seemed to discard the idea a bit too quickly for my taste.

And I wanted to point out that desktops - or at least GNOME - have been looking at building their own distro. If you look at https://live.gnome.org/PortabilityMatrix and its history over time you can clearly see that the requirements for the underlying platform have been increasing.

And from my personal experience in talking with other GNOME developers, I would say that it's certainly been a desire of us GNOME community for a while now to define a platform and not to be "just" a desktop on top of some platform.

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DEs need to build their own distros

Posted Feb 9, 2012 18:37 UTC (Thu) by ndye (guest, #9947) [Link]

... it's certainly been a desire of us GNOME community for a while now to define a platform and not to be "just" a desktop on top of some platform.

And that desire is precisely the problem for many in the . . . audience of any $DesktopEnvironment: I want the choice to exploit my favorite $DE features on Linux, *BSD, Haiku, HURD, etc.

If I have to reinvent those features between platforms, we've chucked the code reuse value of OpenSource or FLOSS in the bonfire.