Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding everybody, the idea of unifying fedora/redhat/debian is quite possible the WORST idea ever.
Everybody needs to stop complaining about there being too many distros, too many web browsers, and that KDE and Gnome need to merge. No way.
First of all, if RedHat was able to merge Debian "under" it or buyout mandrake, everybody would be screaming "MONOPOLY!!!", "MICROSOFT V2.0", or "EVIL CAPITALISM". We don't want one distro. We want competition. Part of why we "like" linux is because it gives us a choice. The more distro's (to a certain realistic degree) the better.
However, what would be cool (and IMHO is unacceptable that we do not have) is better cross distro compatibility. I believe this is what Ian was trying to point out, so I'm not picking on him. Compatibility is hard enough; unification is impossible and useless. A total unified Linux will in now way increase it's adoption.