Re: building a new distro

[Matt . Carpenter]

I would be very interested in an article taking a look at the LSB and the
distros, now that the LSB has been out and published for a while.  Are we
achieving the interoperability which was the goal of the LSB.  If not, is
any distro doing better than the others?  We as a Linux community should
consider supporting any such vendor as STANDARDS are the key strength of
Open systems.  We need to encourage this philosophy.  It took a lot of time
and effort to have these individuals come together and work on a
standard... something that has been a necessary goal for some time.



                                                                                       
                                            
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Andrew Mathews wrote:
     This is very, very nice! Thanks Joseph!
I second that motion. Mucho grassy ass.

     <dream>
     I'm probably hallucinating from the coffee, but I can envision the
     people on this list building a customized distribution that's quite
     easily patched on a regular basis to keep current. Instead of a 16
     month
     period between releases, members get a CD of updates to the libraries,

     kernel, XFree, KDE, etc. via snail mail or built into an .iso to
     download and burn once every 60 days or so. Besides, a distro built by

     the group would evidence our distancing from: 1. Caldera, 2. hostile
     licensing methods, and 3. excessive pricing structures, (regardless of

     who made the distro). It's a lot easier said than done of course.
     </dream>
     Nonetheless, keep the info coming, you're work is appreciated many
     times
     over.
I agree. I expounded these very thoughts and wishes myself some time ago. I
think Caldera has a lot of work to do to clarify it's licensing and sales
policies. I as one who has been looking forward to the release of the new
desktop version am somewhat dismayed by the apparent changes in policy. I'm
taking a wait and see attitude and giving the boyz from Orem a lot of rope.
Hopefully we won't all hang.


But the idea of an easily updateable version of a secure, free linux geared
toward the SOHO user is what I am searching for and perhaps LFS is the only
way I'll be able to get what I want. So I'm very interested.


Warren










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