Twelve years ago there was no Ubuntu, and the Debian-Tagalog project was not yet in existence. I still recall the efforts of Eric Pareja, Sacha Chua et.al. in doing the initial localization of the Debian installer, which eventually propagated to Ubuntu a few years after.
Assembling a Linux distribution for whatever purpose is real hard engineering work (some of us have been there, done that), so there is need for focus and can't be a scattershot effort like a march going nowhere. Most consumer usage of Linux have been targeted on embedded hardware (phones, network tools, etc) where the hardware specifications and tolerances are fixed and has been mostly a success. Contrast this with the past decade of desktop Linux being an uneven experience due to the openness of the IBM PC platform (with all the possible permutations of hardware). Even Ubuntu (being funded by a very rich man) doesn't gun for major kernel contributions but focused on usability on common PC hardware (which is still an Achilles' heel on the desktop) as there's just too much ground to be covered for a desktop-oriented distribution. Paolo On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael Janapin <[email protected]> wrote: > This reminds me of a discussion here in PLUG about 12 years ago. :-) > > > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM, claive alvin Acedilla > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Everybody can join in every aspect of the project: building the distro, >> coding, theme (art work), testing, and documentation. Maybe I can join >> manual system testing because I'm n technical and cannot code. Im sure >> many in PLUG are programmers. So who can start build the distro so we can >> start testing. Sabay na rin gawin ng mga artists ang themes, wallpaper, >> fonts, icons, etc. Sabay na rin gawin ang documentation ng mga writers para >> ma test na rin ang documentation. Lahat ng communication sa lahat nga aspect >> ng project sa email lang gawin. Kahit usad pagong release tayo ng mga >> versions natin from version to the next version >> _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
