DEs need to build their own distros
DEs need to build their own distros
Posted Feb 9, 2012 18:37 UTC (Thu) by ndye (guest, #9947)In reply to: DEs need to build their own distros by Company
Parent article: Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu
... 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.