UserLinux Proposal (And Analysis) Now Available

Lucky writes "Bruce Peren's idea for UserLinux was much discussed on Slashdot some weeks ago; however, there was no formal proposal. Linuxworld is running an analysis of the proposal and links to the first draft."

Comments

Re:How about just "Debian"

[Bruce Perens]

Our goal is to get everything we do into Debian. Sometimes, Debian might not want it, or the package maintainer may be slow to accept it. So, I think we will end up having our own repository for fixes. But if we are unable to get Debian to take stuff, it is more expensive for us to maintain - we have incentive to work with Debian.

Thanks

Bruce

Re:Distributions too conservative

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

There are tons of games on freshmeat.

only 75% of which are free (as in speech), and 95% of those 75% being crap. Which leaves you only with a handful of really promising open-source games, and 2 or 3 really good original ones (that excludes Doom, Heretic, Duke3D, Quake and other previously-commercial-but-look-how-nice-we-are-we- released -the-source-code-to-you-guys kind of games).

Not much to make CDs out of really.

Re:Is this another distribution? What's the point?

[Bruce Perens]

Please read the paper. That will explain something of what I am trying to do. The main thrust is not a radical improvement in user-friendliness. The "User" in the name is due to the user-supported nature of the economic paradigm I am proposing.

Bruce