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0 pointsdypsilon12y ago0 comments

If you are coming from the microsoft world you will have lots of surprises until you realize that the open source world (the unix philosophy) is completely different. You have lots of small tools which are designed to work together and be replaceable, not a huge monolithic product curated by a single entity.

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alok-g12y ago

In that case, I just need help putting together lots of these small tools without needing countless hours to select which tools and reading their manuals to put them together. I think this is an opportunity as far as such a compilation will be useable by a relatively large number of people (which I think should be the case).

dypsilonOP12y ago

That's true, the world is not there yet though. I'm planning something like this some time soon, but life tends to get in the way.

ldng12y ago

That is interesting. How do you envision that for the moment ? As a "Web distribution" with it's own management system that integrate with existing backend and frontend tools ? Or more like a collection of integrated stacks ?

I think a collection of integrated stack would be very interesting. Much like we have small recovery linux distribution, server distribution and desktop-oriented distribution. Like, distrib of webservice, of webservice + frontend framework + end-to-end stack java (thinking GWT or Zk here), ...

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