distro.  There's even a tarball[1] with this
specifically in mind.  The people who built
the Ximian version of RedHat used a system
Building a distro which uses a *BSD ports
would complicate things a tad more IMHO.
wondering about the same thing for a couple
of months now but always considered it too
complicated to carry out. (If that makes any
I don't discount any other work like for
example Niall's work on the B.B.C. but maybe
there is general interest in an Irish distro.
> Don't like SuSE's product licensing?  Write your own distribution.  You
> can even grab most of what you need _from SuSE_.  All you have to do is
> heed the licensing terms on the individual pieces.
How unimaginably difficult is this to do?
There are as far as I know, no Linux kernel hackers, nor distros that originate from this fair island right?
Yes it might be very,very difficult and subject to abject failure
in sticking together a distro.... call it Dolmen Linux (or other),
no doubt the packaging system would be one of the first places
Some (like me) favouring a FreeBSD style ports system others favouring
a Debian style system and others still favouring *rpm style packaging.
That said other *LUG have done interesting things like making blackbox.
Perhaps making a distro would be ..... umm.... fun.
If you could see inside I'm really crying

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