Bruce Perens on the new Debian Common Core

StromPetroke writes "On August 9th, online Linuxzine Mad Penguin conducted an interview with veteran Open Source advocate Bruce Perens on the DCC (Debian Common Core) Alliance. According to Bruce, the DCC will provide a way to "be able to certify to a Linux distribution, and then there will be multiple support providers who can support that same platform and who differentiate themselves at a higher level up the stack.""

Comments

Sounds great and all ... but ...

[tomstdenis]

Software is updated all the time.

What you need are STANDARDS in the software development process. E.g. for any given releast in Vx.y [fixed x] the config/command line parameters should be backwards compatible, etc, etc, etc.

From this you can get a bit better stable moving target.

As it stands people are largely just using "Best judgement" which often works but you occasionally get the "Why the fuck did you do that you psyhco motherfuck!" reaction to having a configuration file move three times within 6 months [hey Gentoo, wake the fuck up]

Look how well standards work for RH, this install [FC3] is ludicrously out of date and most of the tools routinely die on standard html, pdf, etc files.... Think I can easily upgrade it and not CHANGE THE ENTIRE OS AROUND? ... ya right...

So before we set standards based on "what's on the disk" let's set standards based on "what's in the package".

Tom