Re: [Rule-list] non-x86 hardware ... heaps of old Macs need RULE

[James]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:26:43 +0100
Marco Fioretti <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 14:16:13 at 02:16:13PM +0000, isaac wrote:
> > A little proposal ...   :)
> >....... 
> > 
> > In other words, once the initial work is done, expand the scope of RULE
> > beyond Red Hat into a spec and then advocate its adoption by all the
> > Linux distros (similarly to how many are taking up LSB compliance).
> > 
> 
> Isaac,
> 
> doing ourselves a RULE-ification of other distributions would be
> probably too big a taste (heck, once we will have updated all these
> old boxes to RH 7.2 we will have to get some work done with them, not
> funny hacking like this....)
> 
> Consider that other distributions have different choices for kernel,
> libraries, default applications, different versions of applications,
> etc...
> 
 True enough.  BUT if we can become a "standard" of sorts (yes I'm suffering 
from delusions of granduer here) Then maybe we could force certain apps (and 
for the most part it's already true) to be on disk one.  Since the comps list 
says ssh-client version number is largely irrelevant.  Honestly Marco the way 
you are carrying this banner it could well happen.  

Oh also here is someone who has a site dedicated it seems to the same goals you 
have.  http://greboguru.org/winslack/index.html  Could be an alia.

> Making everything we do available for general use, and advocating it
> is a different thing, however. What other distros may use is our
> choice of applications, our selection criteria, our per user post
> install configuration.....
> 
> I would be very happy to see the principles we are trying to follow
> (full functionality for desktop newbies from first boot, on whatever
> available hardware, etcetera...) become common practice.
> 
> For now, however, I'm just not thinking about it. Let's deliver, and
> document well what we do and why, and then it will happen by itself..
> 
>       Ciao,
>               Marco Fioretti
>               RULE project leader
> 
> -- 
> There is more to life than increasing its speed.  -- Mahatma Gandhi
> 
James