RFC: Proposal for a more agile "Fedora.next" (draft of my Flock talk)

[Subhendu Ghosh]

2 types of OS - headless servers and UI enabled systems. Need to cater for
both.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:02 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> No one said that stuff should change "unexpectedly" (and that's not
> >> what currently happens either).
> >> Actually its the opposite you want to consider the "whole picture"
> >> when doing changes and not think
> >> of independent pieces stuck together. That's why the "lets build some
> >> core platform and put stuff on top
> >> of it" is flawed.
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> >
> >
> > Honestly, I keep seeing this argument in this thread, but it doesn't
> square
> > with reality.  The concept of an OS and all of its apps as a monolithic
> > distribution with a single release schedule is unique to Linux.  Every
> other
> > major OS (with the exception perhaps of Windows) strictly differentiates
> > between core OS and apps.
>
> Splitting apps and OS makes sense. But the "OS" is more then just the
> kernel and a few low level libraries.
> The OS (without apps) goes up to X/wayland and the desktop environment.
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