[ubuntu-in] Type of distros

[mallikarjun arjun]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Raseel Bhagat <raseelbhagat at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Mani A <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > About 10 distros have this type of features by default !
>> >
>> > Jani Mosones has announced the release of Kiwi Linux 8.08, an
>> > Ubuntu-based distribution with support for multimedia codecs,
>> > encrypted DVDs, Flash and other desktop conveniences: "Kiwi Linux 8.08
>> > is a desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for the x86
>> > architecture. It contains packages necessary for playing restricted
>> > audio, video and Flash formats by default and supports the SpeedTouch
>> > 330 USB ADSL modem. Differences with respect to Ubuntu 8.04.1:
>> > packages up to date as of 28 August 2008; Thunderbird as the default
>> > mail client, Audacious as the default music player; Flash plugin and
>> > all GStreamer codecs; Compiz extra settings GUI; unrar and MS TrueType
>> > fonts; a graphical tool for restoring GRUB; Midnight Commander; the
>> > Medibuntu repositories enabled by default to allow installing
>> > w32codecs, Skype and Google Earth." Read the full release announcement
>> > for more details
>> >
>> > http://groups.google.com/group/kiwilinux/web/kiwi-8-08-release-notes
>>
>> I am sure in your life time you will see 50 such more distros. It is
>> easy to take one distro, remaster it to include certain packages and
>> release your own. It is hard to maintain it.
>>
>> It is also hard for some people to understand why some packages are
>> not included by default. They simply ignore whatever patent,
>> redistribution problems these packages have and then claim that they
>> provide full multimedia experience.
>> It is like overspeeding on road, breaking all the signals and then
>> claiming that you can reach certain distance in half the time compared
>> to others.
>>
>
> I will admit thats a fair and to some extent a correct assessment.
> But I hope I keep seeing more Distros. It's this freedom of creating
> Distros as an off-shoot of some primary Distro that has gives us the likes
> of PCLinux OS, Ubuntu, etc.
> The more people fork out, the better are the chances that another "Ubuntu"
> will emerge from it.
>
> Thanks,
> Raseel
> http://raseel.in/techblog
>
>
I dint like last line which i marked red. Say GNU/Linux captured 50% of the
desktop market in 10 years. Then MS will say we are the leading desktop
operating system providers of the world because there will be only one
operating system at a time in market say windows XP or Vista or windows7 wat
eva. We cant say that bcoz Ubuntu -20%, suse 15%, fedora 14% etc( please
ignore these figures), The whole concept of distros is bad.

If all the ppl in the world who are interested in GNU/Linux develop a single
OS named  wat eve. Imagine the output (I am out of imaganation.)

Mallikarjun
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