new ubuntu fork

[oxtail75]

hello

i am planning on starting a new Ubuntu fork and just wonted some feed back about my plan

my plan
it will be basically Ubuntu with a few changes to the DE and default apps i plan to use the Enlightenment desktop environment as default DE and the apps i will add as default will be

VLC
SongBird
K3B
Azureus - P2P software
Lemonrip
Frostwire
NTFS read / write support

oxtail75

[Vergil83]

Could I recommend you think about helping with an existing project before starting your own
https://launchpad.net/elbuntu

[oxtail75]

in the past year or so i have written patches for a number of distros and i am i beta tester for Ubuntu this was used going to me a hobby distro just wonted to know peoples thorts on the ider

sorry about the bad english

[Oxygen]

It doesn't merit anything special. Unless your distro is going to offer something no other does then you'd be better just working on other projects.

[carlosponti]

I just read an article talking about how there are too many distributions currently available. Do you realize there are well over 300 and now you wish to devise another. And what exactly are you willing to offer that is any better than the original. kubuntu, xubuntu etc were offered just so that people could experience ubuntu with different window managers. maybe you should contribute to one of those and not flood the deluge with another spin off that may not even go anywhere.

[bigtomrodney]

I think it's commendable that you want to start one. I do agree though that the last thing we need right now is another distro and particularly another Ubuntu distro (Ubuntu,Kubuntu,Xubuntu,Edubuntu,Linux Mint, gNewSense, GoBuntu etc). Also I would say that switching to a lightweight WM would probably be undermined by running both GTK and QT apps on the desktop. This would mean you would most likely still need kdebase and gtklibs installed thus negating the benefit.

If you were doing it for your own learning then yeah sure it'd be a great thing to do. But honestly I don't think another specialised distro is needed. A lot of other apps and projects though are in need of skilled assistance.

[oxtail75]

i also read that artical and its was just a hobby distro i wood only ever think of releasing it if i got alot of good feedback

out of subject but visit shiftbackspace.com its a good linux blog i have come across

[mahlerfan]

I don't know if you can include vlc, unless you strip it of libdvdcss and all proprietary codecs for legal reasons, that is unless you pay the royalties and get right to distribute those codecs. When you're done with that, then you can ask why include it then?

Doesn't Ubuntu already have fuse/ntfs-3g? I thought it did??

Kubuntu does include k3b.

That doesn't seem sufficiently different from Ubuntu to warrant it. What is the purpose of distributing that as a fork?

[netstrider]

There are already two forks of Ubuntu with Lightweight WM's, one uses fluxbox and the other IceWM. I'm not sure of the name of the one that uses IceWM, but Fluxbuntu is pretty awesome and I installed that on my dad's PII with 192mb ram and it's pretty fast, cool thing is the apt-get backend which he can use if he needs anything. If you want to fork something do it from Gentoo i'd say, look at Sabayon...to me it's the most user-friendly distro and it comes from one of the most un-userfriendly distros .