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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jul 2005 11:55 UTC, submitted by Swank1

Are there too many Linux distributions currently available? Can there be too many? This article explores the effect of the large number of distros out right now and suggests that progress could possibly be made through a consolidation.

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No doubt

by Joe User on Thu 14th Jul 2005 12:09 UTC

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2005-06-29

"Divide to reign"

There are too many distros and people are lost.
Also there is no unification for software.

.ebuild, .rpm, .deb. .blablabla...

None of them are compatible. I don't know any Linux web site to download software where the packages are compatible for all distros. Unless source code! Not good, really...

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RE: No doubt

by tbscope on Thu 14th Jul 2005 12:28 in reply to "No doubt"

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2005-07-06

That would only be a problem if you switch distro's every week, I guess.

I mean, why do you want to use a debian package on a gentoo system and vice versa?

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RE[2]: No doubt

by nberardi on Thu 14th Jul 2005 13:21 in reply to "RE: No doubt"

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2005-07-10

You are thinking about this from your perspective. But what about the company that wants to release software but has to be put thought the hassel of supporting 4 different install systems. Not only that there is no unified way of making them so each one has to be made differently and supported differently.

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RE[2]: No doubt

by MadDwarf on Thu 14th Jul 2005 15:49 in reply to "RE: No doubt"

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2005-07-07

"I mean, why do you want to use a debian package on a gentoo system and vice versa?"

Because the author/maintainer has only released the .deb?

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