EDIT: ah jeez ... it's that damn time of year again. haha i always forget about the day of fools until i'm 3 seconds from spamming my gullibility to the world. sending anyway because i already wrote it ;-) C Anthony ------------------------------------------------------ so i sorta meandered to the debian.org homepage randomly, and was surprised to see this: [ it's a link, go ahead and click it :-) ] http://www.debian.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ "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." ------------------------------------------------------ Features The Canterbury distribution will combine the best of the linux world to another game changer for the good of the users: Simple as Arch - technologically simple and bleeding edge. Stable as Debian - highly dependable. Malleable as Gentoo - you get what you really want. Live as Grml - readily usable. Openminded as openSUSE - broad and welcoming for everyone. ------------------------------------------------------ (2011-04-01) - Public Announce Today we came to the point where we feel comfortable to announce the joined effort to the general public. Please watch this space over the next days. ------------------------------------------------------ looks like it was announced today-ish (er tomorrow for me ...), so what i'm wondering if there is any kind of official affiliation here? did anyone here (particularly those close to development processes) know about this? at any rate, sounds pretty cool, should be a good thing. C Anthony