http://www.osnews.com/story/232/Interview_With_the_Creators_of_CRUX_and_ROOTLinux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:08 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I think its great these guys are putting together a distribution, more the merrier!

What I would like to see is a distribution that is so easy to install it does not ask any questions at all. Mandrake is close and my favourite but it still asks too many question during install.

How about one that has a default desktop of KDE say, a good bunch of Home Office apps and configured for internet.

I know that means a lot of auto-detection but it would be great for those very new to Linux and computers in general. Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? It's fun to see people actually doing something instead of speaking about it, and I agree that linux distros are horribly bloated with too much software you never use, doesn't really need, or just plain unnecessary doubled effort (tons of the same stuff, only being developed until pre alpha stage and then left).

But it's also way cool to see an old classmate (PT95!) go up on osnews. Keep up the good work! Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Cool interview... I think I might try out ROOTLinux, it sounds like it will be a nice Linux distro. CRUX sounds good to but it doesn't have what I need so I might hold out on trying that for now. Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Whenever I hear about new Linux distribution the completely wrong analogy comes to my mind but I can't help it. It's about christian religion and how it splitted in different branches and then splitted again and again. May be it's because I was really impressed by St.Augustin story - he was incredibly popular and influential and easily could spawn a new religion movement but chose not to. Instead he decided to make existing one stronger.
As I said it's probably wrong analogy - these guys are great and I wish them all good luck. After trying 6 or 7 of different distros from Linux zoo I started to value FreeBSD approach more and more. Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? BTW, a new swedish distro is coming out soon, hopefully before 2002... And its made by a Swede... Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments