There is an interesting thread on the 'gnu-system-discuss' mailing list about creating a GNU distribution. I am an happy Funtoo user, but my feeling is that Funtoo is the best candidate for such a project; there is a discussion regarding some important choices... Funtoo could become part of the GNU project, this imply among other things to replace the Linux kernel by Linux-libre, which became a GNU package (and creating another branch for the Hurd?). Nobody asked for that, I am just dreaming to initiate a dialogue between Daniel and RMS, it's why I cross-posted this idea on their mailing list, this could be so wonderful if Daniel could share his thought there...
> There is an interesting thread on the 'gnu-system-discuss' mailing > list about creating a GNU distribution. I am an happy Funtoo user, but > my feeling is that Funtoo is the best candidate for such a project; > there is a discussion regarding some important choices... Funtoo could > become part of the GNU project, this imply among other things to > replace the Linux kernel by Linux-libre, which became a GNU package > (and creating another branch for the Hurd?). Nobody asked for that, I > am just dreaming to initiate a dialogue between Daniel and RMS, it's > why I cross-posted this idea on their mailing list, this could be so > wonderful if Daniel could share his thought there...
> Best regards,
> christophe
I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against working with RMS based on past experiences. Andrew
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Andrew D Kirch <trel...@trelane.net> wrote:
> On 4/3/2012 12:54 AM, Christophe Poncy wrote: >> There is an interesting thread on the 'gnu-system-discuss' mailing list >> about creating a GNU distribution.
> I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against working > with RMS based on past experiences. > Andrew
I haven't looked at the discussion, but it strikes me as curious, as the FSF already has a sponsored distribution:
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:42:52 -0400, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
> I would, as a prima facie response say that I am strongly against > working with RMS based on past experiences. > Andrew
For this point, maybe there is an opportunity to forget the past by living today a more positive experience ? I can't talk for rms, but my guess is that a dialogue is worth a try. There is so many projects within GNU that can learn each others, including from the GCC or GDB maintainers. They meet themselves sometimes on GNU hackers meetings. @Martin : this years GHM seems organized in Germany by Werner Koch, and was planned at some time in an hotel named "Linux" if I understood correctly :)
