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UserLinux Proposal (And Analysis) Now Available

Posted by timothy on from the good-work-in-progress dept.

Lucky writes "Bruce Peren's idea for UserLinux was much discussed on Slashdot some weeks ago; however, there was no formal proposal. Linuxworld is running an analysis of the proposal and links to the first draft."

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  1. UserLinux vs Fedora by Steve+'Rim'+Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which one is more likely to grow the most mindshare in the future? I'd be interested to hear some opinions.

    Personally I think UserLinux or something like it will prevail in the end. Red Hat exercizes too much control over Fedora IMHO.

  2. Re:How about just "Debian" by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative
    Our goal is to get everything we do into Debian. Sometimes, Debian might not want it, or the package maintainer may be slow to accept it. So, I think we will end up having our own repository for fixes. But if we are unable to get Debian to take stuff, it is more expensive for us to maintain - we have incentive to work with Debian.

    Thanks

    Bruce

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  3. Re:Distributions too conservative by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are tons of games on freshmeat.

    only 75% of which are free (as in speech), and 95% of those 75% being crap. Which leaves you only with a handful of really promising open-source games, and 2 or 3 really good original ones (that excludes Doom, Heretic, Duke3D, Quake and other previously-commercial-but-look-how-nice-we-are-we- released -the-source-code-to-you-guys kind of games).

    Not much to make CDs out of really.

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  4. Re:Is this another distribution? What's the point? by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Informative
    Please read the paper. That will explain something of what I am trying to do. The main thrust is not a radical improvement in user-friendliness. The "User" in the name is due to the user-supported nature of the economic paradigm I am proposing.

    Bruce

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  5. Re:How about just "Debian" by virtual_mps · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, people @suse and @redhat provided great assistence during the investigation of the debian incident. I would like to see the incident held up as a model of cooperation between the various parts (commercial and noncommercial) of the linux community.

  6. Bruce on Thelinuxshow.com by bstadil · · Score: 3, Informative
    Bruce Perens was guest at TheLinuxshow last night and what he wants to do was discussed in some deatal at the second half of the show.

    Click Here if you want to hear it.

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  7. GPL'ed Qt on Windows by Balinares · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here.

    I hear you can get a native, Trolltech-provided Qt 3.2 Windows free edition on the CD-ROM that comes with the upcoming re-edition of the Qt book, too, if you can't want for the above project to reach completion.

    Otherwise, a decent alternative is wxWindows (not as clean and elegant as Qt, and thus requires a bit more code for a given task, but still very decent, don't worry).

    Thank you.

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