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I used to agree that there wasn’t a need for repeated efforts to repackage the same style system into a new form. It made little sense to expend the effort repackaging and rereleasing a “distribution,” if the same “style” already existed elsewhere. Why repackage Ubuntu in a GTK1.2 form, just as an example? DSL already has the GTK1.2 market cornered, for the most part.

But over time I realized that the converse of that is actually true — the best reason to try something is because it has been done already.

Let’s say I am a big fan of DSL (which I was for a long time) but I have a few personal preferences that DSL doesn’t particularly endorse, for their own reasons. Should I derive my... ... read more >>> kmandla.wordpress.com