Linux distributors, can you march? __linux

Today, the International free Software movement has entered a new period of development, the international development groups of various free software projects are growing, have their own voice, such as: The Linux Kernel International Development Group, GNOME and KDE and OpenOffice.org organizations. Linux publishers must deal with them and not completely ignore their presence in order to openly adopt their stage results. In this international environment, what the "domestic Linux distribution" is purely a closed-eyed nonsense (not nonsense).

From July 23 to 26th, the Linux International Symposium was held in Ottawa, Canada, with a scale of more than 600 participants. The Ottawa Conference on Linux (the popular title for this meeting) is well known in the global Linux industry, and the main topics of the meeting are the cutting-edge topics of today's Linux development. This year, the Ottawa annual meeting has been held for ten consecutive years.

This year's Ottawa Linux conference, which studied the status of International Linux publishers, called for the Linux publishers to collaborate with each other to launch their own Linux distributions simultaneously in order to reduce the waste of the software development process (waste) and increase the market share of Linux. The world has changed and we have to change. "Software development is driven primarily by 3 factors: Rhythm (Cadence), collaboration and users," said Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth at a keynote speech at the conference. The so-called "rhythm" refers to the release of the project version of the Beat. He thought that the beat was consistent and good. Linux publishers should collaborate with each other, make the release of the release of the Beat more consistent (or close), rather than fragmented, free to release, so that users are at a loss. Mark Shuttleworth's view is well worth our attention.

In fact, a variety of Linux distributions, in terms of their main content, are actually almost as small as they are in the second place in terms of their respective "personality" characteristics. Microsoft proposes interoperability and interoperability with WHO. If there are thousands of kinds of Linux distributions, that's okay. Linux distributors, everyone March forward, is the need for objective development.

Interestingly, Linux publishers around the world, if marching, have a very high performance requirement for a global download mirror server. Linux kernel downloads the manager of the mirror server, John Hawley, said at the Ottawa meeting that he noticed that Fedora, openSUSE and CentOS last year were releasing a new version at the same time in 3 days, pressing many mirror servers down. "Don't listen to mark, that's a bad idea," he said wit.

Looking back at our country, there are several Linux distributors, very different from each other, the issue cycle is very long, not to mention the march. The problem now is that the domestic Linux distribution is almost as close to Windows as it is, which is good or bad. Now that Microsoft Vista is here, will you continue to follow Microsoft? Today, the Linux distribution's "Microsoft Style" has become a de facto baggage, which masks the advantages of the Linux distribution itself, such as: Virus-free, system stability, security and robustness, and so on. The objective situation has changed, and we have to change accordingly.

(Note: There are already more than 10 kinds of Linux distributions abroad are based on Ubuntu, or "Powered by Ubuntu", domestic since the launch of U disk will take this development route.) ）