Good info.. saya pun tgh planning utk bt distro utk digunakan, senang nak bt keje...
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:08 PM, simpleLinux <[email protected]> wrote: > +1. for that case We'll take note. > > p/s I made another distro :P just for fun. > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> All this talk about building a Malaysian(?) distro has intrigued me >> ... so I did a quick search and LWN (Linux World Net) has this list of >> distribuitions... >> >> http://lwn.net/Distributions/ >> >> some are categorized for specific purposes such for Edu, desktop and >> server. >> There are some such as Linux From Scratch (LFS) which allow to build >> your own Linux. >> >> IMHO - building your own Linux is great, and a good learning >> experience, but to put it out in the wild and encourage others to use >> it, is a very different and great responsibility. It you look at the >> above list, many of the distros are not updated regularly (many of >> them show last update/release as 2009! - that's 2 years behind). As a >> user, will I go for those distros? Probably not. A lot of them could >> have started with good intentions or because their creators wanted to >> 'scratch an itch', but its takes a lot of effort and resources to >> continue MAINTAINING a distro..... and if your community of >> --contributors-- don't reach a critical mass or it does not have some >> form of final support, that distro will fail to be maintained and.... >> is just like another vehicle abandoned at the roadside. >> >> Rather I think efforts should be focussed on providing 'localisation' >> (credos to the local Debian, Fedora?, Ubuntu? ...etc guys..) and >> creating and packaging specialised apps (like a special package for >> Malaysian primary schools) for for the main distros. >> >> This is just my 2 cents worth. I don't mean to discourage, just to make >> aware. >> Like they say: "Let a thousand blossoms bloom"** >> >> PS >> ** this slogan is chosen with irony: its used by Mao's Cultural >> Revolution in China, and had disastrous consequences! >> >> -- >> #------- >> regds, >> >> Boh Heong, Yap >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from and detail about this group >> http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information >> >> MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 >> >> MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification >> http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert >> > > > > -- > *Fariz Luqman* > The Chairman of SimpleLinux > Visit: http://www.simplelinux.tk > Fb: http://facebook.com/simpleLinux > > "There IS a Malaysian Linux Distro" > > --- > Facebook: facebook.com/farizluqman > > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- Ahmed Noor Kader Mustajir Md Eusoff http://mustajir.org http://launchpad.net/~sir.ade http://l10n.gnome.org/users/sir_ade/ http://drupal.org/user/184579 -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert

