a crackpot idea i had

[Collins]

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On Sun, 12 May 2002 23:01:57 -0400 dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> hey, gang!
> 
> y'know what the world needs? yet another linux distribution!
> 

> i put forth the opinion that caldera edesktop was for its time the
> best linux distribution from anyone ever. 
> 

> and fact is, the distro i want to be running is caldera 2.4 upgraded
> to the current century.
> 

Dep,

Not that I want to pee on your cornflakes, but you must be smoking
pretty good weed to come up with that idea!

What you want is gentoo - onetime pain (compiles, compiles), lifetime
gain.  gentoo is (mostly) LSB compatible, very current (or even
bleeding edge, if you choose), and it only takes a few hours a week to
stay current.

All of the effort you would put into developing this retro-distro
could be spent putting up a state of the art gentoo system.  In fact,
if you like it, you could produce tarballs and with minimal effort
distribute that.  You could use the gentoo CD for booting, generating
a filesystem, etc., then provide instructions how to untar you
tarballs and modify the setup to complete a working system.

LOL,
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.19+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla