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If I Had My Own Distro...

Posted by michael on from the DIY dept.

Gentu writes "Adam Scheinberg writes an interesting editorial explaining what he would do if he was a developer and he had a Linux distribution. His suggestions are pretty radical, and in places resembles of what Apple had done to MacOSX with the help of BSD as the underlying technology. But if this is what it takes to get Linux into the next level, it might worth the consideration."

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  1. MOD UP by Uber+Banker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 insightful

  2. The perfect Linux distro... by azzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) There's no way I'm giving you su access, you might screw things up and blame the distro.
    2) The package management system is gonna be secret and encrypted, because there's no way I'll let you install anything someone else made, in case it screws the system and you blame the distro.
    3) There's no way I'll let you see the filesystem, you might get scared, instead the graphical file browser will only show you a sanitised view of the system, think you're gonna see /dev or /proc or /usr or anything else like that? Forget it, if it scares you, you'll blame the distro.
    4) 2 DE's? no way, choice = panic = blaming the distro
    5) Terminal = Nope.. it scares people... see above about what panic equals
    6) Linux in a linux distro?? No way... what's the point.. might as well use FreeBSD
    7) Open source everything? Nah..
    8) Community support that answers every single question promptly.. sure... that'll be easy.. right??
    9) Profit!!!

  3. Ahm mmm mmm by vesamies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let me feel your sweet potato , if it were my own distro , it would smell like a sweet potato. mmm I loooove potato chips