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[Andrew Pamment]

John Knight wrote:


> The Matrix is my second favourite idea though, something far cooler 
> would be Lain: Serial Experiments, the anime series. Anyone who's seen 
> this programme will know how awe inspiring it would be to have a similar 
> looking interface which puts  Matrix themem to shame, provided that you 
> could replicate such a thing. To anyone thinking of watching the 
> programme, WATCH THE JAPANESE VERSION (with subs)! Don't become one of 
> these snotty little anime fans that avoid watching the Japanese version 
> and watch the English dubbed version instead, because they can't be 
> arsed reading! The Japanese versions are always better and have decent 
> voice acting.


Are you pondering what i'm pondering? So you want to kind of make a 
themed distro. Like for themes.. while this is a good idea, i think 
you'll find it a lot of hard work. there are a lot of packages that go 
into a linux distro, it's not so much getting a distro set up, so much 
as keeping it up to date.


You then have certain resbonsibilities to keep your distro secure, for 
credibilitys sake. while, it may be fun for a while I imagine it 
wouldn't be long before it just gets to be a chore.

Why not make an add on kindof distro. Like use a distro you are happy 
with as a base, perhaps debian if that's what floats your boat, then do 
something like have an apt source that someone then updates and it 
installs/replaces pakages to turn it into a matrix distro. That way you 
can rely on the debian people to keep your exim and utils-linux and what 
not up todate while you can focus more on the appearances.

Just a suggestion, I think it would save you a lot of work, and you 
could then perhaps have a Lain one as well.

Andrew

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