[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[James Hawtin]

Sunny Aujla wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> what even is the budget? all we've been told is that everything is too
>> expensive
>>     
>
> His budget is £1575 - £1875 as stated in a earlier email.
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The thing about a distro is, its not just a one time install. It needs 
to be updated (not least for security reasons). If you don't do this why 
would anyone use your distro?  Finding all the source code is a major 
pain if you are really doing it from scratch, even when you can get the 
source code from another distro, it is normally configure to work and 
compile based on that frame work, so rip of another distro? Even if you 
took another distro rebadged it as CentOS does with Redhat, this takes 
alot of work, and why would someone use your distro rather than the 
upstream one? (In the case of Redhat cost is the reason)? Letter K and 
model railways does not seem a good enough reason for me, but I am a 
techy not into marketing.

The alturnative route of platform customisation is probably better as 
you should be able to rely on others to do much of the work, however you 
still need ongoing maintance, to make sure your patches still work.

James
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