Andrew Mathews wrote: > Douglas J Hunley wrote: >> Seems a lot of potential talk about crafting our own distro. >> You folks serious? Who's got the time for this? I can manage the >> resources on the mothership for it, but unless people actually pledge >> some time to get it off the ground, I'm not gonna bother. >> So? > > <snip> > > IIRC, that was one of the topics within the first day or two this list > was started. (BTW, archives for July 2001 have posts about Untied (sic) > Linux.) But nonetheless, I'd certainly be willing to have a go at it. I > have the hardware, and I can work on it a minimum of 8 hrs. a week, > probably more. What I don't have time for though, is doing the research > required. Someone would need to do the searching for info and most > likely write up the documentation (eventually becoming a new Step). > There would also be a need for people to test the product on platforms > of all different types. If enough people (in a cast of votes) say yes, > then I'd say lets start a new list for direct communication between the > "developers", create a central repository for updates, files, and > documentation, and develop a reasonable means to reach a common ground > or compromise to any issues such as "which version of gcc to use", etc. > I definitely agree it shouldn't be a halfway effort, and we have some > points to consider and/or include such as Skippy's current efforts. I > *do* think it's worthy of more discussion and analysis and would like to > hear more opinions.
Andrew makes an excellent suggestion here. If we do finally get enough mmomentum behind this, we should create a new list, rather than cluttering up this one with content that those not involved wouldn't be interested in. I'll even be so bold as to suggest that SourceForge might be well suited to managing such a project. <ducks & runs> -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:05pm up 43 days, 22:56, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.24, 0.44 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
