I have been watching this thread with some interest. It has been fascinating to see the different responses. While I can not read Tagalog or any other dialect from the Philippines (I'm in the US married to a Filipina) I have noticed that the tone of this list is friendly, even when disagreements fly...and it comes down to attitudes, which I believe, as pointed out earlier, is what makes a distro.
Bayanihan to me, is Red Hat 8.0 with a different flash screen, different icons, and a tux that makes me laugh. It's a friendly distro with an attitude. The ONLY thing I don't like about it (actually there are two things) is that: 1. Red Hat 8.0 autodetected my ethernet card and set it up, while Bayanihan did not. 2. When I went to install Red Hat 9.0, it didn't see the Bayanihan Linux, it saw Red Hat 8.0 So to me it boils down to "what makes it different that the rest." A LUG in my area recently release a Debian-based distro that looked and acted an awful lot like Knoppix. Surprisingly enough, it was Knoppix with some tweaks. However, it was different enough to be their own distro. Bayanihan is, in my mind, very representative of the people of the Philippines...friendly. My kids (5, 3 & 2) all got a kick out of it. My friends who saw it thought it was not as "geeky" as other Linux distros they had seen. It has an attitude that says "Don't be afraid of me" and it is fun. If I had to change anything, make sure Red Hat doesn't see it as Red Hat...other than that, I like it. Be proud of what you created...it's a good distro. Dave -- 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
