Distribution quotes of the week [LWN.net]

That is getting to be a fairer comparison. But we still are not comparing only package manager differences. In fact, this comparison is heavily skewed towards how a distribution chooses to package the software. Pacman appears at a disadvantage, because Arch packages all files for the software in a single package, and does not split binaries, libraries, docs, include files, etc into separate packages. That is a distribution decision, and not a package manager decision – all package managers in the comparison list are capable of splitting packages into smaller units. So maybe not apples to oranges, but rather oranges to orange segments? I don’t think I am good at analogies!

— Allan McRae

Firstly it’s for designers, so they no longer have to suffer through countless hours of trying to build software themselves, in order to test the latest development versions of some of our core modules (most notably GNOME Shell). Tightening that feedback loop is incredibly valuable for delivering a polished product. After that, it’s for the release team, so it can validate releases before slinging them out the door; for developers and translators, so they can have a complete system to test and debug their changes on; for our downstream distributors and OS vendors, so that they can have a known to be working baseline against which they can compare their own products. Last but not least, it’s for the machines and robots that keep an eye out for regressions.

Enjoy GNOME OS!

— Jordan Petridis (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Oct 15, 2020 12:13 UTC (Thu) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link] (3 responses)

I was interested to read about Gnome OS - then I realised it was from 2012. Was there a mistake in copying/did we slip through a timewarp or was there something particularly germane and interesting about an eight year old discussion?

Not criticising - merely curious

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Oct 15, 2020 12:17 UTC (Thu) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

Genuinely - I seemed to be posted back to something that was referencing Gnome timelines in 2014. Reloading the browser and I got to 2020 ...

Distribution quotes of the week

Posted Oct 15, 2020 12:22 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

"I was interested to read about Gnome OS - then I realised it was from 2012."

What is from 2012? The blog post is dated Oct 7, 2020 and the initial testing images are from July.

Distribution quotes of the week - 2012 etc.

Posted Oct 15, 2020 12:52 UTC (Thu) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link]

Solved it - there's a hyperlink on introduced. I inadvertently clicked on that, thinking that it would refer me back a couple of months perhaps to initial discussions - it leads all the way back to 2012 and appears identical, obviously, because the blog is skinned that way. Nothing to see here, move along, problem exists between chair and keyboard ... :)