____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 24 October 2007 10:25 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Fedora 8 renews tradition of innovations
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | This release makes it obvious that the Fedora community prides |
>> itself on innovation.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/feature/119998
>
> They casually dismiss the changes in Fedora 7, but fail to appreciate
> their incredible significance. In F7, for the first time ever in a Red
> Hat core system, the buildsystem was released in an unabridged state to
> the public, facilitating the possibility for anyone to recreate an
> enterprise level Red Hat buildsystem of their own, to essentially build
> a distro from scratch. Such tools have been available for years, but not
> at this level nor to this degree. We've already started to see partial
> results with tools like Revisor, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
>
> It's quite likely that in the not-too distant future, there will simply
> be no need for such a thing as a "distro", but instead just a collection
> of "template" files describing various appliances that one builds
> oneself using those templates in an automated buildsystem. And there
> won't be any need to depend on third parties like rPath for this
> service, you'll be able to do it yourself - in fact you can /now/.
>
> Overview:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/KojiBuildSystem
>
> Howto:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerHowTo
>
> In action at Fedora Project:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji
>
> This will revolutionise the OS for OEM business and enthusiasts alike.
>
> 300 distros? More like 3 billion distros!
While on vacation, I only used a live CD (Ubuntu 4.10 actually). It was fast
and it was great. Everything worked out of the box on a foreign box.
Choosing exactly what apps I want on it (and which versions) would have been
ideal. PCLOS and Red Hat make this possible. SUSE is just catching up.
Some people come to the realisation that the main app to have on a live CD is
the Web browser. I rarely ever open the file manager anymore (once a day, on
average, I'd estimate). As for cookies, a USB drive should do. Data storage?
Rarely needed with Web-based apps. The rest SSH can handle, particularly while
you're away from the main box.
The main barrier to this realisation is the fact that many people's minset and
perception of computing is stuck in the 90s. Than again, they
leave /themselves/ behind and punish /themselves/, career-wise. How about that
Microsoft anti-Google crusade where they used a sockppuppet to say that Google
would damage people's career? Microsoft thrives in legacy. It's a toddler on
the Web and it knows it. So it wants people to fear novelty and be stuck in
the factory like Luddites (with data lock-in too).
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