matthew french mfrench42yahoocouk brian odonoghue asked course would require minimum eur300000 funding would well yes add frilly pink bits crunchy chocolate flavoured pieces seriously see two reasons start another distro something fundamentally different offer customising existing distro unusual specific situation mandrakeyellowdog redhatsuse debian enough options cover daytoday requirements lot specific situations already covered smoothwall familiar etc therefore create new linux distribution would spend time crafting offers lot existing alternatives requirements normally involve better supporteasier maintenance one follows logic would require company behind initiative imagine would possible create new distribution one week1 example take debian base slap specific set packages cd change config files mention untested hardware variations voila new distie matthew 1 weeks 1 week two months __________________________________________________ yahoo everything youll ever need one web page news sport email music charts httpukmyyahoocom irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie tue 13 aug 2002 135022 0100 ilug suse 8 disks thread changed slightly