And if a number of their volunteers are interested, they could easily maintain a branch of a publicly-updated public distro, to be distributed with their computers or even purchased or donated to by their supporters... with EUGLUG's training and support.
Tired: B2B (business-to-business)
Wired: V2V (volunteer-to-volunteer)
Ben "I am a distro" stircrazy B.
On 6/10/06, Mike Cherba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob,
when I said Distro, What I was really thinking was a DSL install setup
which has some customer graphice to put CRRC logos in and has some extra
packages preinstalled. The whole thing would be set up to be a
nobrainer to install. Not really a new distro. I guess I meant sort of
DSL+custom logo+some other extra stuff.
-Mike
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:55 -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Ben Barrett wrote:
>
> > I really like the idea of helping CRRC with a custom distro and/or linux
> > training.
>
> Training, yes, definitely.
>
> Custom distro, I'm not convinced. How are we, in our spare time,
> going to produce something better than the many groups who're already
> doing this full time? How are we, in our spare time, going to provide
> timely security patches 20 times a week like Debian, Redhat, Gentoo,
> and the other majors do?
>
> If CRRC had local customization needs -- a CRRC logo on the login
> screen or Eugene Metro WiFi preconfigured or something, I'd
> understand. But I'm not seeing it otherwise.
>
> We can also add value by helping CRRC select from the 369
> distributions available* or streamline the install process
> with a local package cache.
>
> * distrowatch.com -- active distributions, 6/6/2006
>
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