I do agree with you. During our Workshop with Distros @ HackerspaceKL (12 Jan) we do talk about localisation. Need to have a central repos to all to refer.
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
