ET wrote:
do you remeber on this list some many years ago we had some of the folks
(Yama, Thac, Texstar) who started PClinuxOS? check it out,,,
maybe the natural next step...
Yup. I know PCLinuxOS very well actually. I've been following it for the
last few years. It's certainly a great place to start, and it wouldn't
surprise me to see a lot of 'Mandrivian's' (?) switch over to it.
They have some very good forums and requests for help are pretty fast
too. That might be the way to go but as a possible alternative, we might
want to consider doing one of our own as well.
I think LiveCD's are a great thing - a wonderful invention, but I'd be
interested in seeing how far we could take an rpm-based distro, as
opposed to a SquashFS distro like PCLOS. At the same time, I think it
would be great to offer a LiveCD version especially for recent Linux
converts as a simple way to verify hardware compatibility prior to
installing, but I'd still like to have an RPM-based installer for
specific uses which allows individuals to install only the applications,
software, desktops, etc., that they prefer.
Kinda like merging the best of both worlds. I'd certainly be willing to
host a mailing list to get the ball rolling and I'm planning to upgrade
to one or two 10Mbps connections (it's been planned already) within the
next 3 months here that would be a great place for hosting the project.
One idea I had (since you asked! Grin!), was to build a very small
LiveCD version, which would provide you only with some basic tools (to
be determined) and a minimal desktop, with one distinction - as soon as
the install was completed and the user rebooted, the system would ask
whether or not you wanted to update your install, or netter still,
connect to a mirror and install groups of packages - ie; 'Would you like
to install another desktop environment?', which would then take the user
to a mirror and would automate the download and install process for
whichever desktop the user might want - but it would download and
install a complete desktop 'kit' as one pre-determined set of packages.
Main RPM's, Libs and dependancies all at one time.
CD's could be made available for those who lack high-speed or broadband
connections and I'm sure that we'd see a lot of the 'Cheap CD' sites add
us to their list of available distros.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Dan
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