Re: Merging with OpenZaurus and OpenSimpad

George France wrote:
> After some thought on this matter:
>
> OE is a build system.
> Familiar is a distribution.
>
> Familiar has always used a build system that was appropriate at the time.
> First it was RH-6.2 based, then debian, now OE, in the future it might
> be .....
>
> It makes no sense to me to tie down Familiar to its build system.

By all means no! The plan is that these distro's all use the same
buildsystem, whatever it may be. Today it is OE, tomorrow it could be
something else (not very likely, but it could be).

My current top 3:

1) familiar
2) kolibri
3) ELD

regards,

Koen

>
>
> --George
>
> On Tuesday 19 April 2005 02:46 pm, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
>
>>Hi Koen,
>>
>>
>>>After the move to the new linux-eabi OpenZaurus, OpenSimpad and
>>>Familiar will be binary compatible with each other and debian-arm. All
>>>3 distros are being build from the same source, namely OpenEmbedded. I
>>>would like the three projects to merge and create small, fast, stable
>>>and professional distro for all kinds of devices (handhelds,
>>>settop-boxes, POS systems).
>>
>>This would be great for the sake of free embedded Linux distributions!
>>
>>What about a name change too? Having a single name should increase the
>>visibility and hopefully the popularity of our work.
>>
>>I'd vote for "OpenEmbedded" as the new name. Any comment?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael.
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 28 2005 - 17:04:01 EDT