[ILUG] New Linux Distro (Possibly.. ;)

[Nick Murtagh]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 17:15, AJ McKee wrote:
> Yeah I am interested, myself an Ruairi were talking about this recently. We 
> wanted to build something that was light weight but robust enough and had 
> good overall security.
> 
> Can't code for the life of me (never really tried) but can do some stuff 
> especially with apache/tomcat/jboss

<hungover rant>
What would be useful is a distro with a bulletproof installer. ie one
which can continue after a catastrophic failure and remember stuff like
what packages you chose for installation and what way you want your hard
disk partitioned. I installed Mandrake 8.1 recently and after spending
more than an hour ticking boxes to get the package installation
just right, the installer crashed (RPM errors). Some guy on the register
is having extreme trouble just getting RH 7.2 installer to finish
without crashing:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22562.html

This is an issue that won't go away until it's fixed. I'd be willing
to work on implementing this.
</hungover rant>

Nick