On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Raseel Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Mani A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > About 10 distros have this type of features by default ! >> > >> > Jani Mosones has announced the release of Kiwi Linux 8.08, an >> > Ubuntu-based distribution with support for multimedia codecs, >> > encrypted DVDs, Flash and other desktop conveniences: "Kiwi Linux 8.08 >> > is a desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for the x86 >> > architecture. It contains packages necessary for playing restricted >> > audio, video and Flash formats by default and supports the SpeedTouch >> > 330 USB ADSL modem. Differences with respect to Ubuntu 8.04.1: >> > packages up to date as of 28 August 2008; Thunderbird as the default >> > mail client, Audacious as the default music player; Flash plugin and >> > all GStreamer codecs; Compiz extra settings GUI; unrar and MS TrueType >> > fonts; a graphical tool for restoring GRUB; Midnight Commander; the >> > Medibuntu repositories enabled by default to allow installing >> > w32codecs, Skype and Google Earth." Read the full release announcement >> > for more details >> > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/kiwilinux/web/kiwi-8-08-release-notes >> >> I am sure in your life time you will see 50 such more distros. It is >> easy to take one distro, remaster it to include certain packages and >> release your own. It is hard to maintain it. >> >> It is also hard for some people to understand why some packages are >> not included by default. They simply ignore whatever patent, >> redistribution problems these packages have and then claim that they >> provide full multimedia experience. >> It is like overspeeding on road, breaking all the signals and then >> claiming that you can reach certain distance in half the time compared >> to others. >> > > I will admit thats a fair and to some extent a correct assessment. > But I hope I keep seeing more Distros. It's this freedom of creating > Distros as an off-shoot of some primary Distro that has gives us the likes > of PCLinux OS, Ubuntu, etc. > The more people fork out, the better are the chances that another "Ubuntu" > will emerge from it. > > Thanks, > Raseel > http://raseel.in/techblog > > I dint like last line which i marked red. Say GNU/Linux captured 50% of the desktop market in 10 years. Then MS will say we are the leading desktop operating system providers of the world because there will be only one operating system at a time in market say windows XP or Vista or windows7 wat eva. We cant say that bcoz Ubuntu -20%, suse 15%, fedora 14% etc( please ignore these figures), The whole concept of distros is bad. If all the ppl in the world who are interested in GNU/Linux develop a single OS named wat eve. Imagine the output (I am out of imaganation.) Mallikarjun
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