Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 18:15 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"How many distributions does the Linux world need? And what exactly is a distribution, as opposed to just an edition of another distribution? Why is it that there are so many developers who feel inclined to start their own project instead of joining another, more established one?"
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2006-01-04
How much does the average distro developer actually do? Really, they just compile and package other projects' works. The exceptions being custom package management stuff, like portage.
Back porting of security patches to a given version springs to mind... And in theory, regression testing lots of various bits of software together.