John, Well said :)
Jim. On Fri, 3 May 2002, John McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT) > david scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A lot of good input so far on ideas for our linux > > distro. Here hopefully are some anwsers. > > [snip] > > Seriously guys, the world is full of Linux distros that have started off > full of good ideas and have fallen flat on their horses. Why? not enough > people are interested / trust you to be around / worry that they won't > be able to use other apps because you haven't supplied all the necessary > libraries, etc. > > Why not get on the back of one good distro - say Red Hat - and then > create a post-install CD that adds in your bells and whistles, sets your > default desktop, etc. etc. That way you save a lot of work that's > already been done, and you overcome the fear factor that'll stop people > entrusting their systems to some flaky distro provider (you) who might > vanish tomorrow. > > Here's a wheel - no point re-inventing it - use it to make a bike > instead. > > John > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply > the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net