[lugm.org] Need for a local distro

[selven]

A custom distro is a one hour thing, but a custom distro with local
personalized contents and accessibility contents involves tracking multiple
packages together, listening to support tickets, doing  QA etc... on the
long run it needs to be managed. That's where a lot of distro seems to fail.

Plus you need developers, not just pseudo developers. :)


You also need a vision for your OS, what purpose would you want it to
achieve, desktop I suppose?
If desktop, are you ok with competing with linuxmint, pc-bsd etc...?

Can you do better? Or are you just trying to add internationalisation
support to mint ?

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Jheengut Pritvi <z.coldplayer at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 8 January 2016 at 13:31, selven <pcthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Name it Barbie Linux  while you are at it? :D '
>>
> A good name but its does not represent mauritius.
>
>>
>> It seems a lot of country have tried this, but in the end, the major
>> distro seems to fit the needs. :) But hey, who knows, try it out, it might
>> work out.
>>
> Content is king, the distro should cater to support the content out of the
> box, also in different locales.
>
>
>> Are you considering only on doing visual changes and lingual changes
>> (ever considered joining internationalisation efforts for those already
>> existing distros?)?
>>
> The team should do distro independent  internationalisation and locales
> additions. I need something to work, not start from scratch to create th
> wheel.
>
>>
>> It would be a cool project if you can start it as well as maintain it.
>> Ajay is right on this, maintaining this over the long run requires time and
>> effort and lots of patience.
>>
> A remix of a distro is not hard. Several projects exist for this
> particular purpose.
> Effort should be focused on bringing content. If the team cannot bring
> forward up to date content for the remix, its not worth the effort. No
> content equals a dead end project.
>
> Working in the government provides me plenty of time and working with
> donkeys plenty of patience but I'm lazy as a physicist so effort will be
> hard.
>
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