a distro for the sake of having a distro sounds more like a hobby or an academic exercise. BL does not seem to be either. the site indicates that it is targeted at the desktop which makes basing it on RH a good move because of it's maturity and package availability. i am bit concerned as to how BL will differentiate itself from RH (might be time to try out BL myself =)).
AFAIK, there's no law prohibiting the development of a "pinoy" distro. if there are developers out there that want to start this, don't wait for the government to spearhead it, just start it. i don't think debian started with gov't backing. i also doubt if they filter developers based on nationality. migs On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:58, Lito A. Lampitoc wrote: > Let's not compute the amount of money we have to put up, take the > example of debian, they don't hire programmers to support their distro, > I'm not really sure if they have an office space for an overhead, maybe > they're just paying for the bandwidth, what I'm trying to say here is, > maybe DOST can also create their own distro, with support of Filipino > contributors, if the Americans and the europeans can do it, i believe > that we can do it too. I believe there is an overflowing talents here in > the Philippines, if we only knew how to take advantage of it. > > This may sound idealistic, but small things like FSF, begins from it. -- Miguel de Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
