[Sheflug] Evolution, Ximian in general...

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

home@alexhudson.com writes:
 > 
 > I wonder if I can ask for a quick show of hands.. who uses Ximian Gnome
 > here?

Aye, I've got Helix/Ximian on two RH7 boxen.

 > But anyway, back to distribution. I can name more and more apps which don't
 > install well on Debian, some of the them pretty major apps, it seems like
 > the world is kind of standardising on the RedHats etc.. and I'm not just
 > talking about only shipping RPMs, because I have stuff which isn't in RPMs
 > but still doesn't work on Debian. Ximian seem to not updated their Debian
 > stuff in ages (and their mirror _is_labelled unstable, rather than stable,
 > IIRC). I suspect the same goes for Storm / Caldera, possibly Slack, etc..
 > and then there's IBM's chosen four... hmm, maybe this is it..

MMmm. How does SuSE compare with RH for RPM/filesystem design?

I know there are basic filesystem standards out there that Debian and
RH (and a bunch of others) adhere at least roughly two, but not
actually have read them, I've no idea how closely it specifies things.

Not really used Debian recently (although will be having a stab at it
again soon) I've not been paying attention to the debs situation.
I can't see Debian support just being phased out like you're
suggesting is happening with Ximian with every company.
Admittedly RH does seem to have a disproportionate share of users,
especially in the US, but Debian has a good following, does it not?

I've just talked about two things I've really not put any time into
recently, if at all, so I'll shut up now :-)

Baz.

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