On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:58 am, Kent West wrote: > Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, > which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc.
What bothers me about these distros is that even if they are debian based you can not upgrade transparently your system to follow debian repositories, in a way they try to trap you, cause they make money from it. > Debian, by its very definition, does not work only on one platform. > Anything that is based on Debian, but only works on one platform, is not > Debian. You're free to develop your own distro, or hire/persuade someone > to do it, or to acquire another distro that does what you want, such as > those mentioned above, but the bottom line is that you're asking for > another distro, not Debian. You're free to consider these other distros > as "valid Debian subprojects", but Debian itself supports mulitiple > architectures. Anything less is not Debian, and the "Debian developers" > are unlikely to spend their time and effort working on an installer > that's not Debian (and I applaud them for that!). OK, maybe I'm asking for another distro. I wish I would have the time for doing it myself or the money to hire someone to do it. Unforunatelly... Maybe some day I'll can, who knows? Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
