February 4, 2009 at 16:50Torvalds rejected the idea of a unified distribution
Linus Torvalds spoke negatively about the idea of combining the efforts of developers of various Linux distributions to create a single distribution that could seriously compete with Windows.
According to Torvalds, the existence of hundreds of different packages is necessary, because many of them are created for niche markets, each of which has its own specific requirements, so that no distribution can satisfy all of them. In addition, Linus sees competition as useful to the community, although it turns out that the efforts of many Linux programmers are thus duplicated. For example, for desktop PCs there are several competitive distributions at once. Linus himself has been using Fedora for several years now.
Calls for the creation of one or two universal distributions have been getting louder in recent years, since the popularity of a free OS has frozen at the same level and can not move from this dead end. Even pre-installation on millions of netbooks does not help.
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According to Torvalds, the existence of hundreds of different packages is necessary, because many of them are created for niche markets, each of which has its own specific requirements, so that no distribution can satisfy all of them. In addition, Linus sees competition as useful to the community, although it turns out that the efforts of many Linux programmers are thus duplicated. For example, for desktop PCs there are several competitive distributions at once. Linus himself has been using Fedora for several years now.
Calls for the creation of one or two universal distributions have been getting louder in recent years, since the popularity of a free OS has frozen at the same level and can not move from this dead end. Even pre-installation on millions of netbooks does not help.
via PC Pro