Hi Comrade Boh! Long time no revolution i mean teh tarik. ;)
Yes, indeed it is all natural for us to be creative and having our very
own name on it. There are 2 aspects here:
1. To be creative, you need to make mistakes, think out of the box and
probably sounded bitchy.
2. To be with the FOSS, you need to stand on others shoulders and be
realistic. Speaking of of what i am digging into the coming weeks, i be
integrating MS Project lightly into the ERP system.
Call you for Raju's one of these days.
On 2/15/11 3:51 PM, Boh Yap 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!
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