Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [gnu.org #871653] End of Ututo distro

[Marcos G.]

On Friday 22 November 2013 05:21:31 Jaromil wrote:
> dear Tobias,
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Tobias Platen wrote:
> > UTUTO is not the only unmaintained free distro, Musix seems to be
> > unmaintained too and the latest Dynebolic is two years old.
> 
> Between the last release of dyne:bolic 1 and the first of 2 there have
> been 3 years. Between the 2.5.2 and the 3 there have been 7 years.
> 
> All our users are pretty happy of the fact our distribution doesn't
> changes continuously, also considering the complexity of *binary*
> dependencies in the multimedia field, the hunger for upgrades already
> represent a problem in other distributions that have not understood
> this. There are requests of other kind, but surely not of the
> "maintainance" I think you mean here, which would be updating packages
> like there is no tomorrow I guess.
> 
> > I think it is time to start a new free multimedia distro based on
> > Trisquel and Remastersys. It should come with a low latency / realtime
> > kernel by default. Some kind of a free Ubuntustudio replacement.
> 
> I think the day 100% free distributions will simply be a remastered and
> rebranded version of other distros, especially for complex tasks like
> multimedia production, this very scene will be dead and buried under
> deep ignorance, or surviving depending from a few who know.
> 
> Pardon mon esprit de polémique, I could detail well all the problems
> standing in the field of multimedia if we would have time, having spent
> this last 2 years and more finding our how clunky and inefficient
> maintainance of packages in Debian and Ubuntu (see frei0r-plugins...)
> 
> I wish we could have a more constructive conversation than declaring
> other's project dead and substituting them,





Ahhh, jaja, +1

Cheers!



> if you go on like this be
> sure it will be very easy to trigger even worst reactions from my side.
> 
> ciao

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