On Tuesday 27 June 2006 03:49, Rich Edelman wrote:
If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own?
As a developer of the Utopios OS, we're working on our own.
What about managing dependencies and fetching packages from remote repositories? yast? apt? smart? yum? urpmi? portage?
Plans are for a decentralized, distributed package repository encouraging both third-parties to host and maintain their own packages and easy forks of the OS.
What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64?
Any platforms we can, especially x86/ppc in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
On multilib capable arches (such as x86_64), would you support both 32 and 64 bit, or go 64 bit only?
64-bit only. There's no benefit to 32-bit support when building from source.
Would you go the way of Ubuntu, and work around Gnome mainly? Or the way SuSE traditionally was, and be mostly KDE oriented?
GNOME sucks. ;)