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I just had either a brilliant or a dumb (take your pick) idea that has sprouted from this thought. It be cool if there was a site where you could just click th
by froo 18y ago
I just had either a brilliant or a dumb (take your pick) idea that has sprouted from this thought.
It be cool if there was a site where you could just click the options you wanted and it would create a customised distro for you, without all the added extras?
I'm no linux guru and I dread the thought of having to set up a new system under linux. If there was a site where I could just pay a couple bucks for a customised distro for what I wanted (as its not always the same thing) that just worked, I would absolutely pay it.
I think this kind of approach may also help to increase the adoption rate of linux amongst less technically inclined people too.
EDIT - Sorry about the stream of conciousness, just noticed someone supplied a link for SUSE, is there anything similar for debian based systems? Ubuntu undoubtedly is getting the "lions share" off attention for linux systems, so is there anything like this for it?
- SwellJoe 18y agohttp://www.rpath.com/corp/ http://www.rpath.com/corp/ Their "conary" package management system (developed by at least one of the same folks that were involved in RPM, presumably with a reasonable amount of confidence that RPM didn't really get it right) is designed for the construction of specific purpose distributions. It, obviously, hasn't taken the world by storm, so they seem to have evolved in a different direction of late, and also changed their name I'm pretty sure--though I can't remember what they used to be called (I could only remember the name "conary"). Anyway, technologically speaking conary is awe-inspiring. But, I'm not using it...so obviously, it's not providing value that I can figure out a use for.