On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:22:26 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Not too sure I'd like that as it could be taken to imply greater
variation than is really there. Is one distro different from another
merely because of its desktop?
As near as I can tell, the primary thing that identifies
a distro is the common source of repos where you get updates.
I sometimes imagine a fantasy linux distro that has one original
bit of code: A new version of the dynamic loader that supports
a tree of ldconfig info which then allows support for loading software
and dependencies from any other distro repositories by
stashing otherwise conflicting libraries in separate
trees. I guess that would have to be a "meta distro" :-).