Manas Alekar wrote:
Hi!This is a nice thing to do. Although it ends up dying a miserable death (lack of b/w, manpower, etc) it is still a very good learning experience I must say. For your endevour, making a whole new distro might not be the right solution. You can easily modify a good distro like FC3 or knoppix or Morphix. Pick one up. Also, you need a rough package selection criterion in mind, because packages make a distro. You should come up with a rough package list and see if any other distro has a similar list. Otherwise you might join the development effort of that distro as well. Most importantly, have a strong underlying philosophy. That makes good distros. Ex: Debian -> Everything _f r e e_, at your fingertips. Slackware -> Do it on your own. Mandrake -> My mom who knows nothing about comps can use it too! Happy hacking though, even if the distro fails, the exercise won't go waste. I gaurantee that.
Most importantly, take a thorough look at what is offered currently. I found this one off my head, http://www.zenwalk.org/staticpages/index.php?page=20050321031055330
There are plenty of projets out there. But I applaud the goal. Don't waste any energy in reinventing the wheel.
If you really want to do something fruitful, I would suggest designing simple KDE defaults package. Add a package when installed on top of distro. supplied KDE, provides better usable defaults.
I can't stand GNOME and while I can wade my way through slackware, not everybody else can..
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