Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Chris Innis <chris_innis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, April 01, 2011 12:04:09 AM dwgallien wrote:
> > Saw this on all of the distro home pages except for Gentoo.  A very
> > intriguing idea
> >
> > "The Canterbury Distribution
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution.
> > Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions
> > formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux.
> > The target is to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand
> > up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show
> > off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together
> > for a common goal instead of creating more diversity."
>
> Actually, Canterbury comes up on the Gentoo home page as if it is its own.
>
> Google is returning posts suggesting it's a hack or an April 1 joke.  If
> so, masterfully done.  If for real. very interesting - especially given
> the diversity of the distros.

It is intriguing, but I assume April Foolery is at play.

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-Chris Innis
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