Re: will linux survive the fagmenting/forking

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: 20 Sep 2004 16:10:22 GMT

"George C. Ford" <fordlaw@accnorwalk.com> writes:

]not@top-post wrote:

]> The waste of resources - inability to share knowlegde - is/will-be
]> increasingly problematic as linux distributions fork.
]>
]> As an example, I've got a RedHat 6.2 version at hda2 and a recently
]> installed Mandrake-9 at hda7.
]>
]> Mandrake-9 at hda7 won't mkbootdisk because it lacks vfat ability
]> [apparently fd0-Booters use vfat (pc's native format) ?].

???? What do you mean "lacks vfat ability"? Mandrake 9 does not lack vfat
ability. Tell us exactly what the problem is, not your interpretation.

]> --
]> Using hda2's RH6.2 is not possible since the layout of Mandrake
]> is incompatible with RH's expectations.

What doe this mean? HOw is it incompatible? Again what exactly are your
error messages?
(I must admit 6.2 is pretty ancient and has no security updates anymore,
but then neither does mandrake9.0)

]>
]> Then I read eg.:
]> " You might
]> also want to try a simple copy of the kernel, boot.b and map. If you do
]> that, I would first do 'mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0' to make a linux fs on the
]> floppy. Then do the copy of the 3 files and see if that will boot. "
]>
]> Which is also inapplicable to Mandrake.
]>
]> Every where I turn and look there are incompatibilities.
]> This fragmentation of ideas and efforts is disasterous.
]>
]> But help is already here - Fedora Core is linux for everyone. I know
]> everyone has their favorite distro (mine happens to be slackware) but a lot
]> of creative effort has gone into (and is going into) fedora core. The real
]> future of linux sppears to be fedora core.

??? A lot of effort is going into Mandrake,Suse,Slackware, Debian,
Knopix,..... Why is that the "real future", or are you a self appointed
marketing droid for fedora?

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