On 11/09/14 15:54, pavithran wrote: > > Anyways I personally think lets have another kid on the block who > might actually involve community instead of going on their own basing > on some main distro like our famous public funded distribution has > done. Currently we have taken a similar route to trisquel / gnewsense.
Whilst depending on ubuntu source code for many packages, and compiling some from source, it does give us the advantage of moving across from ubuntu upstream slowly. > > The entire spirit of Free software was to encourage as many outcomes > as possible. Community always went on "If I dont like it I will fork > it " and if it got some traction it also served as a good example. We > have LibreOffice. +1 I did do some work in Libre around that time > > Coming to the main point of having a distro , though I welcomed you I > am only afraid about the efforts you are going to put up. please do > read up on many distro stories and how they couldn't survive . > Changelogs of different releases and their base system. Also the > relation between upstream distributions brings hell lot of stories to > learn. True, I am concerned about that too. But having watched distros come and go since the late 1990's and still not touch the mainstream populations of most countries, there is certainly room for more. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/ForDebianDevelopers?action=show&redirect=UbuntuForDebianDevelopers > could help as an example. > Also have a look at Dedbian Pureblend > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends > > Try to achieve close to pure blend you can be assured of the quality > and huge support from Debian. Good point. The current release is based on Ubuntu upstream, but it's likely that a developer community might take it more toward debian. Thanks for the input - if your around in Chennai, I hope you will come meet us. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
