WDef
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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,12:32 |
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I'm sure a lot of people (including me) wonder the same thing vis a vis the long-term future of dsl as woody becomes more out of date. The same might be said of the 2.4.x kernel (old hardware support notwithstanding).
I don't know what the honchos think but I imagine - if it happens - it might only happen out of absolute necessity (ie when too much is obsolete) a fair way down the track.
I also imagine it would be a lot of work - the current extension repo might need to coexist with a eg sarge-based repo for a while. Some key libraries (eg libc) versions would need to be different I think. I suppose that might mean that either there would need to be two versions of dsl, or perhaps there'd be a massive "upgrade" extension to overwrite a lot of stuff.
Sounds hard.
On the other hand, it might be nice to see a 2.6 kernel, sarge or later, knoppix-based microdistro. It would probably be easiest to start with a non-unionfs Knoppix and strip it down much as John originally did with an earlier knoppix. Could it possibly be a 50MB iso though? Perhaps not with Firefox.
And for now, for most ordinary things, the current dsl is enough. Where it isn't I don't use it :=)
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