On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:56 am, david scott wrote:
> 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.
Financial backing? No, just the inability (with or without financial backing)
to make a full-size quality distribution with regular updates, neatly
packages packages, installation routines, config tools etc. etc. These mean
*hundreds* of men-years. You will just never be able to offer what
distributions like suse, redhat, mandrake and certainly not debian ;) are
delivering now, with their coherent, up to date and sizeable set of programs.
People using thin clients don't just use the 4 or 5 apps you are able to
delier them. *choice* there must be. Moreover I think people should be free
to choose the distro they take for their "thick" machine.
So, I realy see no point in YALD (yet another linux distro). DON'T DO IT!
> 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.
OT I think ;) And it seems *really* ugly to me to put images in libraries.
Why have a dll full of icons if you can have separate image files? I can
imagine it giving problems on a MS platform, because small files will take up
a lot of hd space with their filesystems :-)
> 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?
You're founding a company now? :-)
Frank
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