Anurag wrote:
A new Live CD distro does not take that much effort to create... We daily release 2 new versions of our own distro :-) .... A team of 4-5 people can make a completely unique distro on their own in very less time... Here we can talk about freedom of choice rather re-inventing a wheel... Ubuntu in this has a better hardware detection routines i presume.
It is not just about effort required. It is about fragmenting the i18nisation/localisation and usage base of the parent distributions. We have a very small precious team and resources - why not spend efforts for localisation, and contribute other engineering efforts to the parent distribution?
Personally, given a choice, I would rather have Debian/Fedora providing full Indic support before any Indlinux live-cd/distro, etc. (Absolutely no offense meant to your intentions).
If you have improvements in mind for Anaconda/Debian-installer, I would rather prefer the patches being first sent upstream to these package maintainers, and after integration with the trunk, these being used in the Indian distribution.
The idea is for the world to work on a common code base(functionality + i18nisation), diverging only when country specific work is required.
Seriously, there are too many *noppixes out there already. :)
- Sandip