From: wintermute (cout at domain eircom.net)
Date: Tue 13 Aug 2002 - 00:48:49 IST
Rick Moen <rick at domain linuxmafia.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Don't like SuSE's product licensing? Write your own distribution. You
> can even grab most of what you need _from SuSE_. All you have to do is
> heed the licensing terms on the individual pieces.
<snip>
How unimaginably difficult is this to do?
There are as far as I know, no Linux kernel hackers, nor distros that originate from this fair island right?
Right.
Yes it might be very,very difficult and subject to abject failure
in sticking together a distro.... call it Dolmen Linux (or other),
no doubt the packaging system would be one of the first places
such a suggestion would stumble.
Some (like me) favouring a FreeBSD style ports system others favouring
a Debian style system and others still favouring *rpm style packaging.
That said other *LUG have done interesting things like making blackbox.
Perhaps making a distro would be ..... umm.... fun.
Just a pseudo random thought.
I'm only laughing on the outside
My smile is just skin deep
If you could see inside I'm really crying
You might join me for a weep.
<<At your service Madame>>
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