[ossig] Invitation for all Malaysian Linux community

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

On 3/14/07, Chyryll Zariss <czar at chevna.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> To pay respect to the local Malaysian Linux community, we are proudly
> inviting all people here to join Chevna community, a new local distro based
> on Ubuntu. This is a first announcement made in Malaysia before we announced
> to the global community.
>
> We produce as two version, one is community (continuous free) version and
> one with a support as to sustain our continuous development.
>
> If you are representing an organization/company (especially in Malaysia)
> as a developer, consultant of opensource product/application and/or a
> reseller of Linux distribution, you also can register your company in our
> site without cost. We will not only hosting a repository of packages but we
> will also host a 'repository' of OSS developer (organization/company) in
> Malaysia.
>
> **
>

Since 2001 I have asked people who would like to create their own distro a
simple question:

What are the features of your distro that make it different from other
distro?

If you just taking Ubuntu and throw in "Live/Installation CD, finely tuned
desktop based on KDE, fuse NTFS, WiFi support, bundled with a popular
software", I can do it with Ubuntu/Kubuntu as well. So, what is the point of
your distro?

Easy to install software? Linspire CNR is available for Ubuntu. Synaptic is
easy enough.

Not that I don't want to support local company/people, but if you are
reinventing the wheel, or coating the wheel in something shiny to be sold, I
might as well use a Free, Open and proven wheel available in the market.

I'm using Debian, it is the base of Ubuntu.

-- 
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
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