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
> 
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