Hi Yogesh, Quoting yogesh powar (2015-01-25 12:11:08) > Swaraj Gnu/Linux wants to be a fully Free alternative for Indian > community with long term goal of spreading awareness about Free > Softwares. Quite interesting! > 1. Why yet another new Libre Gnu Linux ? > > In Jan 2015, Indian Government [1] decided to move on a Made In India > Gnu/Linux operating system, which unfortunately is not a Free Software > [2]. Free Software means the users have the freedom to run, copy, > distribute, study, change and improve the software. > > Hence there is a need of time to provide a fully Free alternative. > > Swaraj will be completely build by the community and for the > community. To me the fact that Indian Government makes yet another fork is not an argument to make yet another fork. Seems above really only answers "why must it be Libre?" and I am curious what is your reason to make it a fork rather than improve Debian itself in the areas you find is weak currently for your needs. My guesses are that a) you feel Debian is "too english oriented" and that b) you want the distribution tied to a *local* community rather than the international one of Debian. Here is a concrete suggestion: Go ahead and launch Swaraj, but instead of forking most possible, fork the _least_ possible, and have as goal to get all of your works assimilated by Debian. Why? Because then you keep your branding and concrete product but is not bogged down by the heavy(!) burden of maintaining dulpicated big infrastructure - you leave that to Debian. And your users will gain *both* the many eyeballs of Debian *and* your passion for their special needs. That style of development has a name: Debian Blend. And the goal is called a Debian Pure Blend¹: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends#Terminology What are your ideas more concretely? Do you expect to setup a compile farm and rebuild packages for your distro? Will you make a subset of Debian or offer all but re-prioritize which parts are installed by default? Do you expect to maintain parts unique to your distro? Will you redesign some structural parts (e.g. different bootloader or init system than Debian default, or perhaps hardcode Indic script support)? I am developing a tool for Blend-style development (i.e. for staying as close as possible to Debian while having room for some customization) called "Boxer". I have already included tracking of all Indic languages for common desktop use (Xfce/GNOME/KDE+Iceweasel+Icedove). I would love to collaborate with you, and make Boxer cover your needs for Swaraj! You can find inspiration for ways to design Debian derivatives at the Debian Derivatives Census - and are encouraged to register your own there as well: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census NB! Beware that your colored title at your website cause some characters to almost blend in with the background. For practical reasons (looks like the title is "Sw aj" some search engines punish text colored similar to the background by ranking lower (because it may be attempts at gaming the ranking systems). Regards, - Jonas ¹ Since goal is complete assimilation you will only find the term "Debian Pure Blend" mentioned among developers: When you have succeeded in having Debian cover _all_ your needs in the main Debian releases you have no need for your own product any longer and noone will call it "the Swaraj Pure Blend of Debian" but just "Debian". -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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