The easiest way to say this, because a lot of the things that will happen are needed. Yes, it is true that a lot of distros start out with good ideas, however there are many reasons why a distro can fail. One of the biggest is financial backing. Linux is a set of great ideas, however, a lot of people when it comes to programming, support, whatever. Are just that, nice ideas. Many aspects of things that I talk about are simplicities. However there is a serious reason why I talk about them. Mainly we are going to do this becuase in aspects Linux is a great OS. However it does some things wrong. I will be flamed for this(most likely) but Some things Micro.. has done right. such as embeded images in libraries, and much more image compression levels than linux. Images in Linux right nor are just eye candy. They are not functional. Not only that but as I had mentioned libraries, we are not recreating many of the libraries, but implementing better library linking, making it so libaries are able to be found easier between the programs.
A major thing you said was don't rewrite the wheel, and in many areas we will not, and I imagine that several things, unfortunatly will be a copy of the various distros. However many of the things implemented will help speed things up greatly. Of the greatest things that we will have, where I really shoudn't talk about our distro is, services. System Integrators, that can help people set up their Network, and a decent sized support staff. Email, phone, and on-site help will be available. (well on-site for a time in a radius.) We already work with, are are in talks with some large people in our area, for more support, and will continue to try to get more people what will increase the use. Good answer? --- John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT) > david scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A lot of good input so far on ideas for our linux > > distro. Here hopefully are some anwsers. > > [snip] > > Seriously guys, the world is full of Linux distros > that have started off > full of good ideas and have fallen flat on their > horses. Why? not enough > people are interested / trust you to be around / > worry that they won't > be able to use other apps because you haven't > supplied all the necessary > libraries, etc. > > Why not get on the back of one good distro - say Red > Hat - and then > create a post-install CD that adds in your bells and > whistles, sets your > default desktop, etc. etc. That way you save a lot > of work that's > already been done, and you overcome the fear factor > that'll stop people > entrusting their systems to some flaky distro > provider (you) who might > vanish tomorrow. > > Here's a wheel - no point re-inventing it - use it > to make a bike > instead. > > John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
