A consortium of Linux vendors created to promote the commercial use of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution has released its first product, and plans more. “The first preview release of DCC 3.0 PR1 was made available last week,” Progeny chairman and Debian founder Ian Murdock wrote in his blog. He added that the next version was due late this week or early next week.
so where can i download it?
Here’s the real press release with download links:
http://lists.dccalliance.org/pipermail/dcc-devel/2005-September/000…
(2/3 days) you better wait now ..
oh yay… yet other debian spin off *sigh*
Its a good idea and will make Debian an Enterprise player. Who cares if it forks if the end result is something better(Remeber GCC forking?)
Okay, kids, this isn’t a fork. This is actually an UNforking of all the Debian spinoffs. There is one, all-compatible, Debian CORE distro that all the popular and sexy spinoffs can use to base theirs off of. Well, that’s the idea, anyway.
Oh, and the gcc fork ended up with the gcc steering committee decisively UNforking as well. Okay, technically, the steering committee just recognized how much farther along egcs was and settled on it as the future, but it is still an unfork. EGCS became the well-respected gcc 3.x series after a few abortive attempts (see gcc 2.9x.x).
I suppose other famous forkings that turned out well would be X.Org vs. XFree (until the license switch) and the BSD quartet (Free, Open, Net, Dragonfly). Mind you, these happened MOSTLY based on needs from the community (and politics. never omit politics).
Well, the Debian UNforking this represents is also based on community needs, (frustration with) politics, and cash. Unforking means saving dev dollars on Debian derivative distros. Besides, many of the darlings of the Debian world are there except, notably, Ubuntu.
I say, more power to them as long as Debian-dot-org is cool with the project and the use of their trademark.
–JM