[Marketing] [IAEP] Fwd: Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Jun 18 14:53:48 EDT 2009


On 18.06.2009, at 20:28, David Van Assche wrote:

> Soas = sugar on a stick.... whether that be on Fedora, Suse, debian,
> or mandriva... they are all the same thing, and I would argue SoaS is
> NOT a distro... just a dsitribution mechanism... for example, I call
> my opensuse based sugar on stick SoaS too, as that is technically what
> it is...

You can call that whatever you want, but please not in public. SoaS  
means a very specific distro, not just any Linux+Sugar slapped onto a  
USB flash drive.

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I beg everyone's pardon, I was under the impression that SoaS is
>> Fedora-specific... are there plans to do versions based on other
>> distros?

No, there are no such plans currently.

IMHO we should not water down the meaning of "SoaS".

- Bert -



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