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14 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/digit-linux.17569/

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digitizen Original post #1
Oct 26, 2005 at 9:45 AM
hey everyone

Forget about suse,mandriva,knoppix etc . why cant these people from digit devlop their own linux distro . I dont think its difficult for them . so why cant they devlop their own flavour for their readers and give it in their forthcoming magazine .i really want a linux distro in digit style.
praka123
praka123 #2
Oct 26, 2005 at 10:12 AM
hmm.....maybe we...forum members may start one distro rather waiting for DIGIT to start one :wink:

PS:even main Linux mag didnot have a distro........
desertwind
desertwind #3
Oct 26, 2005 at 12:13 PM
i dont think digit people have enough time and effort for developing their own distro. And there are several excellent distros available. I'd suggest to put their effort onto localization rather than developing a new distro. Developing a new distro is not a simple task. It need mammoth effort. and if you are pointing out something like PCQLinux, it is not a new distro, it is a customised and tuned up version of RH/Fedora

@prakash: LFY had their own distro named LiFY (Linux from India For You) earlier. But now they had stopped development and support on it.
tuxfan
tuxfan #4
Oct 26, 2005 at 6:45 PM
Wasn't there another thread some time back on the same topic?
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cryptid #5
Oct 27, 2005 at 1:50 PM
i dont think so this will ever happen,,, and let digit stick to the things they are good at
vignesh
vignesh #6
Oct 28, 2005 at 7:17 AM
There was a thread like this before...
champ_rock
champ_rock #7
Oct 28, 2005 at 4:20 PM
i think that the max we can do is to just change the name from the distro to ours....
as the parent distro is already pretty groomed..............
sujithtom
sujithtom #8
Oct 28, 2005 at 10:02 PM
I think we can. Haven't anybody here heard abt about Linux From Scratch. If not search for it and go and download it (Its very small).
praka123
praka123 #9
Oct 28, 2005 at 10:09 PM
@sujithtom:Linux From Scratch--had u tried installing.....LFS
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mehulved #10
Oct 28, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Good idea people. Lets develop a distro from Beyond Linux From Scratch. We people can work on it if digit decides to incorporate it. Though, i agree with desertwind that maintainance will be hard and not so knowledgeable users like me won't be able to get much of an active part. I'm game for the idea. I feel it would be a good experience for us learners to learn from the gurus here if they can devote some time to this.
sujithtom
sujithtom #11
Oct 29, 2005 at 6:56 AM
@sujithtom:Linux From Scratch--had u tried installing.....LFS
Click to expand...
I have installed LFS,BLFS, and ALFS.

The prob is tht i haven't read any of them and i don't have all the latest pakages for it.
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mehulved #12
Oct 29, 2005 at 1:14 PM
I can get the latest version if we decide to work on it.
praka123
praka123 #13
Oct 29, 2005 at 1:38 PM
Will DIGITwalle support this sort of endeavour?hmm...
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mehulved #14
Oct 29, 2005 at 2:02 PM
Well that's a very important question and our first consideration. Can some mods give some ideas on this please?