Re: Linux on Laptop: Success!

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>I guess we'll have to create our own distribution to get it perfect ...
>>>Anyone up for a BSware overhaul?   :{)
>>Careful, you may be opening a can of worms:)
>>That said, "Sure!"
>The major can of worms is that we can't please everybody.

Screw everybody else, please me!  This is America after all.

>My "perfect" distribution may not be perfect to anyone else.

No, but I'd bet it would be alot like mine.

>>I tried making my own distro once... wasn't really anything special,
>>though.  Right now, though, if I were going to make one, I would

I've thought about it but I don't have any idea how them installers really work.
I suppose if you were careful you could steal someone elses.

>>probably want it to be something like a cross between Debain and
>>Solaris, with the cool stuff like Helix thrown in, and then shutoff just
>>about all the insecure access by default...  Maybe make the daemons and
>>such configure themselves a little bit better, and have it setup to run
>>nice with ot without DNS.  Hmmm...  I do like some of the stuff that
>>Solaris does, though, so it would be nice to have that, but the GNU
>>stuff is really the biggy...  Still working on getting my Sparc to
>>almost usable, by dropping TONS of GNU software on it:)
>>(Sun ls is bad... sun shutdown is bad... sun ... you get the idea:)

AIX is much the same way.

>Personally I was thinking of something a little simpler.
>Like maybe adding a few kernel patches that Adam mentioned.
>And/or adding a few packages, like XFCE, to BSware.

Yea.  Kernel + USB + NFSv3 + ResierFS + Trustees (ACL) + LVM + Alsa
And make the UI XFCE + GMC from XDM, and include ODBC.

>One major problem is the lack of space we have available
>without going to another CD.

I think ALOT could be pitched.  Depends on how general you want the distrib to
be.

>I'm still not sure if I want to hack up BSware like this or not.

Neither am I.

>The major advantage of keeping BSware the way it is (stock Redhat
>with official Redhat updates) is I don't have to support it.
>If someone has a problem, I can pass the buck to Redhat.
>(hey, it's stock Redhat, ask them! :)

You pass the buck to me, and I'll point back at you,  just like real IT vendors!

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