Re: An Idea

[Dan Williams <dlwillia@xxxxxxx>]

Sounds like an effort in futility to create a distro for such a small group...  Nobody would use it, and fewer would care.  Also, if you are just changing the default package set just release a metapackage that pulls in all the stuff you want, that is about all this "distribution" would have different from default ubuntu.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin TerAvest" <mjterave@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lug-l@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:41:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: An Idea

Why? 


It could be cool if it was a branded LiveCD to help with adoption, though. I don't understand why you'd want to build it from scratch; maintaining your own package repository is difficult (though it could be a fun exercise). Keeping up to date with security updates might be even less fun. 


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gabe Delgado < gjdelgad@xxxxxxx > wrote: 


Hey guys, 


A friend of a friend of mine told me earlier that LUG should have it's own Linux Distro. I had to agree! So, I decided I would try making one. It will most likely be based on Ubuntu and will have all the CS and Math programs that a student would need (and of course some programs you would want too). If you want to help out, here are some of the things I'm gonna need: 


    • An awesome MTU themed background (maybe more than one?) 
    • An MTU themed plymouth theme (an image file will do, I'll do the rest for that) 
    • Any program suggestions 
    • A name? (Besides MTU Linux or LUG Linux) 
    • Any other ideas for features 


If it sounds like a good idea to you guys, we could host this on the LUG server. Let me know what you guys think. :) 



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