Well...... I too have brought out a small distro for the road which I use in my travels around India (especially semi-urban areas). But it is more of a boot-and-run linux kind of thing (emergency bootup disk).
It has been very close to my heart to bring out a Distro for old 386s upto the Pentium 75 level processors. Time and lack of resources have stalled this pet project of mine. I have the specs for such a distro and a very realistic scenario about the extreme utility for such a generic distro. If people are interested I don't mind taking it up on sourceforge or somewhere. I will need folks who are really good on device drivers and installers (to be written in C or Python), in addition to other things (like filesystems with soft-updates, X, etc). I can add that almost all the places I go need this kind of distro in India. Schools, colleges, ngos, small-time entrepreneurs, cyber cafe folks (the ones who do a minimalistic dialup on highways and small towns), .... the list goes on. Just one single individual cannot work on this -- a team is required. Anybody interested? And can somebody cross-post this to the other related forums (linux-programmers, etc) since I am not subscribed there right now. Many thanks in advance. RKA >> Thaths, how about starting a open project "Tiny Distro for Old Pc for >> Indian Schools"? As all of my code and works are GPLed, I can put them >> in that project. We can also add Indian language support there. > > > I currently can't devote the time for such a project. However, if > someone else starts it, I'll contribute. > > Indian language support would be awesome. Actually, any > internationalizing the project so that it can be localized into any > language would be very popular. > > Thaths _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
