Star Interview with Professor David Costa of CollegeLinux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Apr 2003 18:28 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews There is a Linux distro for any possible need and CollegeLinux is geared towards students and schools! Today, we interview Prof. David Costa of the Robert Kennedy College in Delémont, Switzerland regarding their initiative behind CollegeLinux.
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Re:Re;Re; Why another distribution
by J. J. Ramsey on Fri 18th Apr 2003 11:48 UTC

"Sorry but I still don't get it. Why these packages and tools cannot be provide as add-on to Slackware? For example with a CD that will provide additional tools and drivers, and a "setup" to install everything on top of an existing installation of Slackware 9."

But you still don't have automatic hardware detection as part of the install. (Yes, Slackware 9 does *some* hardware detection but not as complete as, say, Red Hat's Kudzu, which is part of CollegeLinux.) Nor would you have X configuration as an automatic part of first boot-up.

While, IMHO, CollegeLinux's implementation needs work, I don't think it's a bad idea, and I don't think it's as simple as adding packages onto an existing distro.