Revision as of 07:18, 19 December 2008

L/i/nux Project Proposal

This is the proposal to create a new distrobution of Linux for our /i/nsugents.

The first thing to decide if we decided to start the L/i/nux project is weather we simply want to re-brand an existing Linux distro with a set of packages (as done with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix for example) or if we want to go all in and create our very own distribution. The pros and cons of each method can be discussed below.

According to DistroWatch.com the current most popular Linux distributions are:

We need to decide which one to base L/i/nux on before we can start much of anything.

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 ===The Distro Method===
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+==Which Distro Should L/i/nux Be Based Off Of==
+According to [http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major DistroWatch.com] the current most popular Linux distributions are:
+# [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]
+# [http://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]
+# [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora]
+# [http://www.debian.org/ Debian]
+# [http://www.mandriva.com/ Mandriva Linux]
+# [http://linuxmint.com/ Linux Mint]
+# [http://www.pclinuxos.com/ PCLinuxOS]
+# [http://www.slackware.com/ Slackware Linux]
+# [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo Linux]
+# [http://www.centos.org/ CentOS]
+# [http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
+We need to decide which one to base L/i/nux on before we can start much of anything.