i don't have a problem with distros. i have a problem with a bazillion distros that seem to end up splintering the OS (choices are good, too many choices can be overwhelming though). you have so many discussions on which distro is "best" or "easiest", if the number of distros were kept down or otherwise controlled you could avoid confusion (and perhaps future incompatibilities)--or maybe allow distros but require an adherence to a core set of ReactOS standards (like for presentation, authentication--like an RFC database just for ROS).jasorn wrote:Don't take this the wrong way but I'm not sure we're getting the point of FOSS. Once this thing gets to a suitable point, there will be as many 'distros' out there are people who have the time, desire, and skills to make one.
it would be pointless to add code barriers as they would be removed, but if ReactOS 1 were to be released on a modified GPL or whatnot where people would still have the code open and free but if they wanted to make a "distro" they would have to acknowledge that it came from the ReactOS project and that it is NOT a distro of ReactOS that way you'd have the "official" tree and the "unofficial" forks.
. Maybe some of the confusion is that it doesn't bundle the gui and other apps that people have come to consider part of an OS. ReactOS is bundling the gui so I think that will inherent limit it's 'flavors'. And even if there are more flavors if the guis and other things are the same it would feel more like an extension than a distro at least for a while. If you think about it distros are just extensions. But in linux they just have a smaller base to start from so there is more room for more things to be different.
