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> SUSE hoped that Redhat would see the benefit of Yast
Notice that Yast never made it into Debian or it's commercial offshoots (e.g. Linspire and MEPIS) or Mandrake who have no qualms about using Qt tools. The reason is that Yast has several SUSE specific features and from what I've read, it seems to be mostly GUI centered and does not produce files that are amenable to manual creation and editing (sort of like or Visual Studio 6 template generated code).
> Debian had hoped that SuSE and Redhat would have seen the benefit of apt-get
They have. They just used their own implementation of apt-get that is better suited to RPMs (read Red Hat's reason for creating YUM).
> Fedora had hoped that other distros would have seen
> the benefit of not allowing binary drivers to be loaded
Debian had that hope too. And Novell finally came around to this point of view too.
> Novell had hoped that Redhat would have seen the
> benefit of including Xen
They do and they *are* contributing to get Xen into the *standard* kernel. They just don't want to support massive patches that are incompatible with many device drivers. RedHat isn't the only distro that's cautious wrt Xen but will support it fully when it matures. Read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenEdgy
> Redhat had hoped that other vendors would have seen
> the benefit of using their BlueCurve GNOME/KDE
> mishmash.
The BlueCurve theme didn't get much support, but the idea of a cross-desktop theme did take off. That was a radical idea at the time (with KDE and GNOME screeming murder at changing their default), but these days its quite common.
I don't know if upstart has any future, but it does implement different ideas that are worth exploring, so what's wrong with that?
At least for Edgy, it will be implemented only as an option from the Universe repository (i.e. it's not supported, but it is available) just like initng. If other distros jump on upstart, Ubuntu will likely follow suit. If everyone else chooses initng, Ubuntu will need to decide if the benefits of upstart are worth the price of being nonstandard.
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2006-01-11
> It is hoped that other distributions will see the benefit in the design outlined here
- SUSE hoped that Redhat would see the benefit of Yast
- Debian had hoped that SuSE and Redhat would have seen the benefit of apt-get
- Mandrake had hoped that other distros would have seen the benefit of turning off REGPARM in their kernels
- Fedora had hoped that other distros would have seen the benefit of not allowing binary drivers to be loaded
- Novell had hoped that Redhat would have seen the benefit of including Xen
- Redhat had hoped that other vendors would have seen the benefit of using their BlueCurve GNOME/KDE mishmash.
Finally LSB had hoped that ALL distros would have seen the benefit in a standard Linux base definition
Edited 2006-08-27 18:10