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The MLED project has been around for a few years now, and it's slowly but steadily gaining momentum. Aside from questions and/or bug reports, I've been getting quite a lot of positive feedback. I guess it's time for MLED to reach a wider audience, and it looks like the best way to achieve that is for the distribution (or meta-distribution) to be added to the Distrowatch site.
MLED has been added to the Distrowatch waiting list in March 2015. It's been almost a year and a half now, and it's still on the waiting list. You can change with a simple vote. Search for "Microlinux Enterprise Desktop" and click on the "Recommend" button, so the distribution moves up on the waiting list. Maybe sooner or later MLED will be added to the official distribution list and - who knows - even get a review?
I just got an email from Distrowatch informing me that MLED does not qualify as a distribution, since there's no separate installation ISO to download.
DistroWatch's decision makes sense now. I'm glad I saw this thread - next break I have I think I'll be extending the Slackware installation on my old machine.
DistroWatch's decision makes sense now. I'm glad I saw this thread - next break I have I think I'll be extending the Slackware installation on my old machine.
Thanks!
Well, I don't know if it makes that much sense. Distributions like Gentoo or LFS are listed on Distrowatch, yet they don't sport an installation ISO. On the other hand, give me one cent for every Ubuntu-with-a-different-wallpaper, and I'm a rich man.
That site likes to bad mouth Slackware based distros anyway. If you don't do dependency checks and don't modify packages to create your own unique personal touch (vanilla bad/modified & unified design good) then the reviewer bad mouths the distro. That's what I gather.
I think its silly since many distros are modifications of other distros like Debian. I think the reviewer just wanted one unified iso to plop into a VM and quickly praise for heavy modifications or bad mouth for lack of.
It does beg what a Linux Distribution is in my mind. If someone took an iso and just changed the name of everything to "My Linux Distribution 1.0" and submitted it to distrowatch would that count as a linux distribution?
Hard to define what a distro is, although I wouldn't say repo extensions (another example like openSUSE EduLife)
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Originally Posted by RadicalDreamer
If someone took an iso and just changed the name of everything to "My Linux Distribution 1.0" and submitted it to distrowatch would that count as a linux distribution?
Absolutely, if it's Ubuntu based, that is. (<- meant to put smiley face there, not at top of post)
Kubuntu or Ubuntu GNOME is not very different than another spin of Fedora or a SUSE Studio custom ISO. It would be more convenient anyways if the Kubuntu KDE Plasma version was included on the Ubuntu distrowatch page anyways.
Hard to define what a distro is, although I wouldn't say repo extensions (another example like openSUSE EduLife)
MLED is something in between a distribution and a repo extension. The end result is definitely something like Salix or Zenwalk, the only difference being that I don't provide a separate ISO. Just give it a spin, you'll realize it's more than just a third-party repo.
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