OSNews: If I Had My Own Distro

“Lately, we’ve all read a lot of articles about desktop
Linux–so many that it’s getting hard to tell them apart. One says
‘Why Linux Sucks,’ the next ‘My Success With Linux.’ Even Michael
Robertson of Lindows.com joined the fun with his ‘Why Desktop Linux
Sucks, Today.’ But very few people have proposed anything radical,
and I believe that’s what’s needed to take GNU/Linux to the next
level.

“The polish that Red Hat and Mandrake have added to their
consumer-grade Linux offerings have meant a lot to users like me,
those who use it as their main desktop OS. Finally, these
distributions are starting to look like a professional quality
operating system. One of the main problems, the way I see it, is
what I call ‘marketspace crowding.’ There are so many
distributions, so many flavors that are, when it really boils down
to it, just semi-clones of one another with one good tool or one
little tweak added or modified. The idea of roll-your-own
distribution has left the market saturated with many similar
distributions, and even those ‘in the know’ don’t know how to
properly choose a distribution. The solution should be to make your
distribution stand out, and in order to do that, you can take
advantage of the opportunity to do some things right.

“So, if I had the capital and connections to make a new
distribution, I’d take full advantage of the opportunity. The
market doesn’t need another carbon copy of the current Linux market
leaders. It needs something new, something fresh, something that
really rocks the Linux community’s world. So I’m in charge of my
own personal Linux distribution, DistroX, and here’s what I’m
telling my staff and engineers…”

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