Re: Small-Business Class Linux
- From: "mvephoto" <mvephoto@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:30:27 -0500
" I think this is a niche' market that hasn't yet been addressed."
Mark, Mark, Mark..... you've GOT to be kidding, right?? If you like Debian
and KDE, take Kubuntu for example.
Thing is - for business use, you'd really want something that has a longer
cycle than the short six months of the Ubuntu family.
Therefore, I'd recommend switching your thinking and go with CentOS
(Community Enterprise Operating System) based on RHEL. CentOS 4.4 offers
(quoting Linux Magazine here) "Full updates (including hardware updates):
Currently to Feb 29, 2008. Maintenance updates: Mar 1, 2008 to Feb 29,
2012."
Yes, it may have more than required for a business desktop, but who stops
you from doing a custom install and install only what you want? I'm thinking
if you put a custom install box in front of your customers/bosses you'd
score quite a few points when you point out the strong support. It truly is
an enterprise level distribution.
And, if you're programming skills are good enough to start your own distro,
perhaps you have something awfully good to contribute to an existing distro
as well? Just a thought.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm all for experimenting, and who knows - your
distro might become the next best thing since sliced bread. Either way -
good luck.
"Mark Shelby" <mshelby1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:a283a$451a998a$80a36e48$19336@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello all, I am interested in forming a distro specifically geared toward
small business users in offices that have around 10 PC's. I think this is
a
niche' market that hasn't yet been addressed.
I would like to base the distro off of Debian and KDE using source code
and
reducing the size of the distro.
What I envision is the basic Debian framework with the 2.6 kernel and the
KDE desktop with minimal addons. For example "kdegames" would not be
compiled in, nor would "kdedevelopment." The "remainig kde subgroups
"networking" "utilities" etc... would also be paired down to include the
basics for a networked office environment.
Is there any interest out there in the community for this product, and if
so
is there anyone interested in helping out with it?
If you are interested in helping out please reply by email to
mshelby1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks!
.
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