On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Mark Marsella wrote:
> I agree you need to find a area where there is no real support from an
> existing distro. Or design and implement a similar one to the exisitng
> parade which has something innovative and revolutionary- That's the key but
> sadly it requires alot of thought.
>
> Mark -
>
Without wanting to get into too much distro bashing, I read an interesting
article on Linux Today - an except from the kernel mailling list where
Linus Torvalds berated Red Hat 7.0 as a developer OS. Basically, as far as
I drew the version of either gcc or glib was brokem and would only work in
a Red Hat 7.0 environment. I also inferred from this piece that, say for
example, as a server there may be no side affects from this issue, as long
as binaries from a Red Hat 7.0 machine were not run on another Linux box.
Maybe there are too many distro's at present, that could threaten the
modularity of Linux. But as Allen says, I think it _could_ be a lot of
fun, as well as a learning exercise. The thing I like about using Open
Source software is that you can do _anything_ with it. The tools are out
there.
I like Billy's idea of a mini-distro. Personally, i dont care whether or
not linux conquers the desktop. It all sounds a bit too musch like a media
frenzy to me. Hell, you wouldn't even need to include X (although I'm sure
the libraries would help). Simple configuration menu eg
Apache server (with your favourite MTA and DNS servers)
Samba server
Firewall / Gateway
Database (MySQL, PostgeSQL or whatever)
I'm sure there are more that people on the list can think of
It could be a winner
Monkey
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