[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[Sunny Aujla]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Krishna Birth <krishnabirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, June 6, 2011 20:27, Krishna Birth wrote:
>>> This distro is based on an esoteric philosophy.  Opensource software /
>>> hardware and esoteric philosophy are nice.
>>
>> Which esoteric philosophy is that then?
>>
>>> No other distro at this time offers what this distro is going to offer.
>>
>> What's that then?
>
> .....is for Srila Prabhupada: the always on eternal spiritual
> initiating and education guru.
>
>>> I have said above that this distro is like no other distro and this
>>> distro is based on an esoteric philosophy.  It is going to be a
>>> non-commercial distro.  It is a grass roots based distro:  new distro
>>> and new people.
>>
>> Show us the code.  So far you have a website and a tshirt. Nothing
>> downloadable, no git repo, no project plan, no mailing list.  In short,
>> nothing that looks even close to a viable open source project.
>
> I am not a software coder qualified.  Thus I am requesting for help on
> this list.
>
>> Don't get me wrong, I genuinely hope you achieve whatever it is you want
>> to, even if you haven't been able to make me understand what it is you're
>> doing that's new, interesting, different and revolutionary.
>
> Let me keep it simple and practical for you to start with.  Could you
> tweek Ubuntu or Fedora by removing all their fonts from everywhere and
> putting BBT and Rail Model font?

haha, BBT font - Back to the whole 'K' business again!  What is the
point of rebuilding/tweaking a distro just to change the font!!!

>
>> Now, you've asked for help, and I hope you've managed to get some.
>> However your current reponses to questions on this list are not painting
>> you, nor your pet project, in a good light.
>
> Like I said before I am not a software coder.  I  am a non-techie and
> you I suppose are a techie.  This could be the source to your
> perceptions/views about me or the project.
>
>> I'm _still_ waiting for someone to come up with a distro that's better
>> than Debian, maybe your "esoteric philosophy" is going to be that thing.
>> I'm not going to find out if you keep up your current policy of
>> non-information.
>
> Sorry.  You get me wrong.  I am a newbie and a non-techie.  I want a
> tweek to a big popular distro, they have the coding resources.  When
> they improve their coding, then the new distro is also improved.  To
> keep it simple and practical for you to start with, I wish to have
> only certain fonts.  Once you do this we then move to the next stage.
>

You need to read up on software project planing!  Please do some
research.  Obviously you're not getting the point what the other guys
on the mailing list have told you.

>
> Regards,
>
>
> Meeku
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