Re: [Morphix-devel] Spam

[Alex de L. <ale...@xs...>]

> Did you see the white paper of Bruce Perens? He say that Morphix is one 
> of the distros the new UserLinux should be based on.
> http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html

Did see some chatter on debian-devel and slashdot on this, there are quite a
few
goals I see 'UserLinux' and Morphix have in common (focus on the
desktop/userfriendlyness, atleast I'm doing my best to keep stuff simple). Only
thing is that Knoppix and Morphix are both
non-commercial, both are just the pet-projects of two developers who couldn't
care less if they would make a buck of their work (I did get a babytux-tshirt a
few months ago, still need to set up one of those cafepress stores). You can't
even officially buy Morphix yet, although I know of companies having flavours
pre-installed. Having said that, Klaus isn't doing too bad :)

On the other hand, Morphix and UserLinux have completely seperate goals. I'd
rather focus on a few different flavours and not make fixed choices for users
(let them choose, hence the morphability/modularity). UserLinux would focus more
on having one strong brand as an alternative to commercial distributions, thus
you would need to make hard choices. I'd make for the bombshelter first.

Even so, having an umbrella-organization for
non-commercial distributions would be interesting and give prospective users a
uniform view instead of the collection of independant distro's now. Might be
wishful thinking as herding distro's would be much like herding (very stubborn)
cats, but as long as we don't have to agree with everything being done they have
my support. Well, as long as they don't become dominated by commercial
entities.

The name seems to be in doubt, how about UserFriendlyLinux? Would love rallying
behind the Dust Puppy :P

Cheers,

Alex de Landgraaf
rambling on like usual, and CC'ing to userlinux's list


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