yes patriotism is a good thing. but do we have enough development manpower to focus on security, performance and bugfix updates like the distributions have? can we test each and every package before shipping? maybe if we have to we can NEVER ship anything.
this is coming from a person who is tasked with maintaining software applications (abiet commercial in nature). believe me it because tedious and boring work. why don't we just build up on were somebody else started out. we can be technology innovators by adding new programs and features to our "enhanced" distribution. writing you own distribution from scratch CANNOT be considered "innovation". it is just redoing something already done before. (abiet with some twist). i remember having this conversation with engels before. instead why don't we focus on the following (if you really consider yourselves patriots. these things can have a better impact on the promotion of linux than writing your own distribution): -improving the PH locale (a japanese dude from IBM wrote this) -creating PH codepages for the different applications like openoffice, mozilla, KDE, gnome -translating manpages (very difficult work) -writing accessibility and usability applications sorry for the ramblings. my $0.02. Quoting "Melvin Dave P. Vivas MCOM/2103" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > > -> 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. > > I don't think this is an ego trip or something. I believe our friend > wants to point out that we must begin to be innovators not just users > of technology. > > Hmmm...creating a Linux distro from scratch doesn't mean you'll be > reinventing everything. You can, of course, reuse other components > available. You're crazy if you would implement everything from scratch... > that is reinventing the wheel. > > I wouldn't have responded to your e-mail if you didn't drag the > patriotism thing... > > Mabuhay ang Filipino! > > Melvin > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 > > iD8DBQE++PSfCc76JDzIEPYRAnnSAKCmVb3zD01/GdbkIJ0h2p1l/cM5oQCgrjXM > Av2qnGDeSADKoQYeLRedfQU= > =clo3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Campus Network Group (AteneoCNG) email : wyu at ateneo dot edu web : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/ phone : +63(2)4266001-4186 GPG : http://CNG.ateneo.net/cng/wyu/wyy.pgp -- 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
