[ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

[Vivek Khurana]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:51 PM, Vivek <viveksh2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frankly I wasn't expecting so much resistance. Why is everyone so much
> opposed to the idea of a new ubuntu flavor ? If Ubuntu muslim edition,
> christian edition, satan , ultimate, fluxubuntu can co-exist then what's
> the problem in a new Indian edition ?

Because you guys have failed to provide anything which is unique and
requires a new distro. What you guys are looking for is minor
modification to existing distros and this can be attained by creating
a package (most of the suggestions only require a config change)

>
> Ubuntu is not the only linux distribution. There are other -RedHat,
> Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo ...and each has its own user base. If everyone
> started to think like this then only 1 distro would be maintained
> (*patched*), the rest would should be discarded. Infact if that was the
> case then ubuntu itself should not have started (after all debian was
> already available and ubuntu is its derivative).

 They all exist because they package things differently. There are
noticeable differences between ubuntu and debian.

>
> Distrbution is "just" an assembly of existing software ..so how can u
> call this reinvention of wheel ? Moreover, I'm not talking of compiling
> everything from scratch but only to use fewer ubuntu packages, and
> certain modifications to make it more functional.
>

 Which modifications ? What you guys are suggesting can be atained by
extending exiting distro, so why spend so much time trying to build a
new distro, port security packages etc.

> In any case these are my views and I'll be going ahead with these.

 Sure, no one is stopping you from creating a new distro. If you have
the time to create distro, maintain packages, troubleshoot problems,
provide support and more importantly port security packages regularly
...
 Are you game for this ?

regards
VK

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