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Tonight Live: Desktop Distro Standards, Do We Need Them?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 3, 2003

[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt
for this link. ]

Tonight Live: Desktop Distro Standards, do we need them?
>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
from Chicago IL the Home
of

Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Arne
Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all back
live tonight. We have a very different show lined up for
tonight.

Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Gates Spew,
Linux Tablet PCs, and a clueless pundit or two…….. and way
more.

Story Links

  • The Weekly SCO
  • Old SCO
  • The SCO/Microsoft Connection

Segment Two- Desktop Linux Distros, do we really need a
standard one?
– What is Bruce up to this time???

Tonight we are going to have our old friend Bruce Perens on the
show. We are going to discuss the effort by Bruce and a number of
folks in creating a universal Desktop Distro of the Linux Kernel.
This concept was announced a month ago at a Desktop Linux
conference where he announced the creation of userlinux.com/. You may also want to
read about another similar effort at http://freedesktop.org/~jg/roadmap.html

Advance disclaimer. Some of us at TLS are not sold on this idea.
That is why we thought it fair to invte Bruce and have him sell us
on the idea. Please note that although we may not be convinced yet
does not mean this is an adversarial situation. There is room for
disagreements from time to time even with riends.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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