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[Andrew Pamment]

John Knight wrote:

 > Only thinking about it, if people are genuinely interested, maybe
 > some  people could get together for it?

i dunno about a matrix distro, i'm not all that sure what would be 
different about a matrix distro to an ordinary distro?

i do reckon it would be fun to make a new distro though, something a 
little less drab than debian, and a little more spiffy than slackware. 
i'm in the process of writing new init scripts, i love the bsd ones with 
slack, but, something with colour. redhat and suse always look prettier 
there than slack and debian. but, insted of a dull red "failure" and a 
green "done" what about "alsa sound sounding crisp this morning sir!" 
and "code red! code red! all hands man your keyboards! we have a 
faliure!" "send mail, primed and ready to send!" "Shhhh! SHH is 
listening!" "GPM Pointing in the right direction"

i was thinking then, what about a darwin distro? although i would 
proberly go to hell (Mr Tulliver thinks lawyers were made by Old Harry) 
but then I noticed Darwin x86 definatly doesnt work with AMD or VIA 
(acorrding to the readme) I'm not sure why they don't call it Darwin 
Intel(TM)

Or what about a HURD distro? for something different? every man and his 
dog makes his own linux distro, but why not lets do something new? HURD 
nearly works well, i mean, i don't think we could play unreal tornament 
on it just yet, but i reckon we could make it boot.

i'm not entirely sure what a matrix distro would be like? apart from 
scrapping X, and changing your console font to green wingdinds that you 
type vertically, i must admit that would be cool, perhaps a little user 
unfriendly, but definatly cool.

I am serious, i think it would be fun to make a distro a little 
different from the rest, even if it is the worst distro in the world 
with a cult following of 2 or 3 people, but would definatly be fun. i 
was thinking about it myself, but not with a matrix theme.

let me know what you were thinking for a matrix distro. perhaps we could 
make some sort of interchangeble distro. once you have a distro you have 
to keep doing security updates, maybe i can do my dumb one and you can 
do your matrix one but we can make the packages interchangable?

Oh and does anyone have Solaris 8? I desperatly need it for Intro to 
Literature. Ok, not really. But it's taking foreevveerr to download from 
aarnet.

Andrew

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