Polls re: new linux distribution

[Brandon Holtsclaw]

Rich Edelman wrote:
> If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package 
> management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own?
>
>   
Well as a Kubuntu Developer I'm partial to apt / dpkg but one small 
thing about that is it dosent support biarch ( x86 / x86_64 or ppc32 / 
ppc64 ) that i would really like to see but afaik thats being worked on 
/ patched in.
> What about managing dependencies and fetching packages from remote 
> repositories? yast? apt? smart? yum? urpmi? portage?
>
>   
Smart is looking really good , infact at the (K)Ubuntu Developers Summit 
in Paris this past week it was one of the topics for edgy ( the october 
release of *ubuntu ) but over all it is still very young and has some 
issues of its own , I would probbly try to get dpkg and smart to 
co-exist for the time being
> What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64?
>
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x86 and x86_64 ( with legacy ppc support ) if i was targeting just 
desktops , with the addition of server targets I would imagine 
UltraSparc T1 Niagra ( the GPL Sun Chips ) support would be a good 
target also
> On multilib capable arches (such as x86_64), would you support both 32 and 64 
> bit, or go 64 bit only?
>
>   
We'll in _MY_ senerio it would be hard without the patches to dpkg or 
use a a 32bit chroot ( cleaner IMHO anyhow ) but incremental upgrades 
even with a chroot are alot better than total 64bit untill more and more 
software is ported.
> Would you go the way of Ubuntu, and work around Gnome mainly? Or the way SuSE 
> traditionally was, and be mostly KDE oriented?
>   
KDE to the end BABY !! ;) ( but again i'm a tad bias being a Kubuntu 
Developer )

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Brandon Holtsclaw
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