No problem making your own distro, just do it yourself. Don't make a word document and do a horrible design in MS paint upload it to an UBUNTU mailing list and expect anyone to give a sh(-1^1/2)t. :)
On 14 Nov, 20:35, Christopher Lees <christopher_l...@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 20:18 +0000, Julius Papz wrote: > > Hey all, > > > We need people who can create us a linux distro were planning > > to bring to the market! we need anyone who wants to help out > > > we attached a document regarding our project! And we will have a website > > about this project in a matter of weeks > > > cheers > > > Julius Papadopoulos > > Time for some reality here. > > There are already hundreds (thousands?) of distributions. All the > distributions that actually get used have one thing in common: They know > who their target market is, and they design their system to be catered > specifically to that target. So far, nothing I've seen about your > project has told me that you even know who you're intending this > distribution for. > > I get the vague idea that it's for desktops, and that it might be just a > live CD environment... but there's absolutely nothing so far > differentiating your project from the hundred or so Ubuntu respins. > Except that yours seems to lack originality by comparison. > > You also don't say what you really need in terms of programming. Do you > need people who know HTML? PHP? Python? C? C#? Ruby? I might have the > skillset to help if it's Python, but I'm not going to volunteer and then > find that I'm expected to write something Ajaxy. And when you say "we", > who is the "we"; in other words, if I joined this project, who exactly > am I working for? > > What distributions is this based on? Ubuntu? Linux From Scratch? > OpenSUSE? T2? Android? With Gnome? KDE? XFCE? Openbox and AWN? > > And do you know what's most off-putting about this? You mention in the > document that you made the mockup in MS Paint. You attached the document > in Microsoft Word 2007 format! (thanks to Harrison for converting it to > ODF so I could actually read it) > > Why on earth would anybody use your Linux distribution when you don't? > > Before you can get anybody from the Linux community involved, you need > to ask yourself those questions, and have some pretty good answers. > Until then, it sounds like you're trying to get someone to make "MY gR8 > OS!!!!!" without actually booting up Linux at any stage yourself. > > I'm sorry if I sounded nasty (I wasn't trying to be or sound that way), > but honestly I'd hate to see you waste your time (and other people's > time) on an ill-defined project, when you could instead be installing > Ubuntu and learning all about our exciting operating system :-) > > Chris. > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
