[Gllug] Could you build a distro?

[Sunny Aujla]

Address this to Krishna who's "project" it is. You've replied to my post. :)

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> wrote:
> 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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