a crackpot idea i had

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on May 12, dep managed to emit:
> hey, gang!
> 
> y'know what the world needs? yet another linux distribution!

And more reporters! ;-)

> anyway, the distributions have gone kind of haywire, off in all kinds 
> of goofy directions. so what i'm wondering is how difficult it would 
> be to put together a modern distribution based on 2.4, with 
> everything simply updated to newer stuff. i've been through a whole 
> collection of other distros, and they all fall short -- rh puts stuff 
> in weird places; suse is just too damned, well, suse; debian is 
> debian and slack is slack; mandrake tends to be rh only broken. and 
> so on. and fact is, the distro i want to be running is caldera 2.4 
> upgraded to the current century.

Joe Cheek's Lycoris (nee Redmond Linux, a near-clone of eDesktop 2.4) 
may come pretty close. I haven't played with it, though.

> suppose a recipe for this could be cooked up?

Yup. I don't have time to do it.

Kurt
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