On Saturday 14 January 2006 06:31, Dan LaBine wrote:
> Just a quick little rant here, but instead of looking for a different
> distro to jump over to, why don't we consider making one of our own?
> There's a lot of experts and experienced people on these lists, as
> well as a lot of newbies who know quite a bit and the tools *ARE* out
> there for us to use.
>
> After all, isn't that exactly how Mandrake/Mandriva was born in the
> first place? If nothing else, it would allow us to take the best that
> all the distros have to offer and merge it into one cohesive system
> that we all find useful.
>
> OH, I realise that there's a lot of people who have other
> obligations, etc., but I'm not suggesting that everyone kiss their
> wives and kids goodbye and lock themselves in their computer rooms
> for the next 10 years or anything, but if Mandriva is really going to
> start losing a lot of ground, that going to create a serious vacuum
> (Nature abhors a vacuum - to quote Mr. Spock) and since we all love
> the distro itself, why not take a natural step and take this distro
> where we want it to go?
>
> If CentOS and Whitebox can do it to Red Hat's Enterprise Edition, why
> can't we do something with Mandriva? We already have the motivation
> (a great distro and a good bunch of people), so why not take
> responsibility for putting out a 'Mandriva on Steroids' distro that
> we can steer in the direction we want?
>
> Is that what it's all about? Choice and Freedom?
>
> Just a thought for your consideration folks.
A good idea as long as we consider it a fun project and not work and if
we can get some heavy hitters intrested
also we could learn something
need a new list [don't wanna spoil the playpen ;-) ]
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