[Klug-general] KLUG OS

[George Prowse]

J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:38:32PM +0100, AllenJB wrote:
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>> So your suggestion is to create a new distro (which won't be exactly 
>> alike any other) with a very small number of users and little to no 
>> support or documentation? Despite the fact that what a linux user is 
>> going to want is a very large support base and lots of documentation?
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>> I have to reiterate what others have said here. Reinventing the wheel is 
>> bad. If you want a well supported, easy to install and run distro for 
>> new users which has lots of documentation already available, I would 
>> suggest Ubuntu.
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>> If you want to get dirty and mess about at a relatively low level, then 
>> I would suggest installing LFS at least once, then using Gentoo. Again - 
>> large support base with plenty of documentation.
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> Alternatively you could take one distro and really get into the depths and
> dark corners of how it works, truely understand the internals. With
> debian, I highly recommend anyone using it to get themselves a copy of:
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> http://is.gd/vtxj
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That would be awesome... if we wanted to know what linux was like at the 
dawn of time.