On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, optimus wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 11:22 am, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > * I do believe we have overflowing talents but that is not the point here. > * That is a given. The point is making good and productive use of those > * talents, not spending them on needless efforts > > If there is room for improvement and the Filipino can do it, why not? > > The big name distros are also imperfect. We can rectify the problems from each > distro and come up with the best Filipino distro. > > You see, Red Hat has crippled KDE libs and other broken gcc libs all over the > place. We can fix that by packaging stable and standard KDE and gcc with > Bayanihan. > > Mandrake has broken supermount. We can package a better supermount than them. > Include packages for apt-get, urpmi, or synaptic. > > Xandros has the slickest and greatest GUI tools of all desktop distros, but > they're not open source. I believe the Filipinos can engineer better GUI > tools and have the balls to open source it. > > Create an emergency Knoppix-like rescue CD on the same set of CDs, or a trial > CD of some sort. > > Take the best, fix what's broken in other distros and incorporate it in a > Filipino distro. That will be a good reason to make our own distro. >
That's not making your own distro. That's leveraging your work on the base of others, which to me is the most logical, practical way to go. Anything else would be a waste of time, talent and resources. -- 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
