Geez, even maintaining a FORK of an existing distro is hard enough! Much more if you make the distro from scratch yourself. Obviously this person who "has been using Linux since 1996" wasn't using it long enough to get a realistic picture of what it takes to maintain one's own distro.
-> my point: don't take his ego trip seriously. Unless there's a very good reason why we should not reuse other people's efforts (ego, pride, and patriotism mean absolutely nothing to me), redoing/reinventing yet another wheel is a waste of time. On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > > we should appreciate the fact that RedHat spends thousands of dollars > just to ensure that the software they release is tested and functioning. > not to mention the security efforts they are placing into their > products. saying naman ang effort ng mga taga-RedHat. instead, we can > grab the base from RH and write specialized software for ourselves (and > release them as GPL of course). thus, coming out with an improved product. > > does this friend in "DOST" realize how hard it is to maintain a single > software application? much less a whole caboodle of them? i believe > in RedHat's efforts because they have their huge user base in mind. > as such, they are more concerned about the product they deliver. > > besides, who do you think most of the glibc and gcc people work for? > how about the number 2 linux kernel hacker? > > two cents from a software engineer concerned about shipping a product. > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
