On Wednesday 27 October 2004 08:24, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:59, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > Unfortunately open source development doesn't work well that way.  If the
> > man wants to help with a distro, then there's no reason to suggest
> > something different.
>
> That's still better than starting yet another new one :-).

It's not for you to decide that. Many people have ideas, which won't mix with 
the ideas of developers and maintainers of already existing distro's. For one 
man to go into a circle of debates, trying to get some of his ideas in this 
distro... -that- is time-consuming. Starting a new one gives the person with 
new ideas almost complete freedom, to add and to don't add to his distro or 
not. If beginning a new distro isn't a great idea, then you should know it 
soon enough, when after 2 months after the first unstable release, only few 
people have downloaded the distro. 

Then again. Some of the new distro's solve problems (mostly for users new to 
linux) which other distro's didn't or couldn't. *points to ubuntu and 
fedora*. Add the academy I study, the release of Fedora resulted in a boost 
of new linux-users. And now the same things seems to be happening with 
Ubuntu.

The fact that there are 100 other distro's, doesn't mean there all used. 
Esspecially not by new linux-users. The lifetime of a new linux distribution 
depends on a lot more then the number of available distro's.

Beginning a new distro is a bad idea? I even think it's a good idea.

-Dennie
 
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