Anarky wrote:
you know something that i would really LOOVE to see? A 10cd
distribution Linux (preferably made out of Mandrake) ... that would
be something awesome ! Then i'd download it and share it with
everybody I know ... and everybody would go .. wooooowww ... 10cds ..
imagine the amount of data .. adn the funny thing is that it's
possible .. theoretically ... since afaik the people who are good at
making stuff would only have to add software upon software to
constitute this mega distro ... and there's loads of software around
... and imagine the re-selling possibilities, and thus the marketing
possibilities of such a distro ... why? for at least 2 reasons:
1) for people quantity == much work put into it, thus quality product
2) but more importantly .. it would really be a LOT of software .. in
all areas imaginable .. and what linux lacks in certain software areas
(some hardware support, some games, professional music software ...)
it could be replaced by the sheer excitement of discouvering so many
types of programs for so many types of things ... it would fill people
with awe (or at least my computer enthusiast friends) ... even those
who'd normally think ... linux ??? why?? you can't do anything with it
(eg. "you can't share software with your friends on it" most of the
time ... that meaning windows software) ... because now you could
obviously do a lot of stuff with 10 cds worth of data & lots of
software .... heck on 10 cds you could have so many free games that
even the hardcore gamer might be caught by one of those even if it's
not his wanted *** windows title.
.... if anybdoy feels the same way as me ... where could we pitch this
idea with people with enough knowledge & power to actually do this?
what I actually ment here is something like a set of cds of additional
software ... not comercial .. but simply a collected bunch of software
freely available on the web in mandrake rpms. I would love to download
such huge software packs and discouver in them all sorts of weird
software people have cooked up ... like who knows what kind of time
tracking tool, or free music making software, or 3d (especially)
software like k3d, blender, povray, yafray ... possibly a disk made by
users for users.
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