DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Introducing StudentOS™



Hi,

Greetings!

Iam Ananda Kammampati (username "blogananda" at DSL forums) and I would like to introduce StudentOS™ - a remastered DSL4.0 but, with Linux 2.4.35 kernel built with LIRC module.

Now why does the world need yet another remastered Linux you might ask. Fair question and I dont have a convincing answer :-) But I have shared my thoughts on creation of StudentOS™ and different "Editions" of it on my website.

http://www.metoolabs.com

http://www.metoolabs.com/index.p....emid=58

Having done with the creation of StudentOS™, for which I have documented to my best at :

http://www.metoolabs.com/index.p....emid=83

I then went ahead and did something that the creators of DSL and it's community would hate to see someone doing it for DSL. which is "bloating" the distro and going against it's phylosophy of keeping it small.

So, before I get flame emails :-) just wanted clarify that my intial plan is to work extensively on DSL-N (2.6 kernel). But since I couldn't get the development tools working on DSL-N (atleast when I looked into it last time), I eventually ended  up spending more time on DSL, creating StudentOS™ and different Editions based on it, with each bundled with a different set of Opensource applications.

http://www.metoolabs.com/index.p....emid=69

You are absolutely welcome to download, install them and play with them all.

http://www.metoolabs.com/index.p....mid=104

For now, please bear with the ugly (but harmless) error messages that will be thrown at bootup time (exception - StudentOS™-Basic Edition). I'll take care of them in their
next cut/release.The error messages will appear only when it is booted from CDROM. Once you install them on the hardrive (Press F3 at boot prompt and enter "install"), things should be fine.

Clicking on each Edition of StudentOS™ listed under www.metoolabs.com-->Documentation-->StudentOS-->Editions

should popup a browser (or a tab in your browser) showing step-by-step instructions in building all the softwares listed under that particular Edition.

I sincerely hope the documentations that I have provided will save a lot of trouble for anyone out there who love DSL and who would like to install different Opensource software on DSL. (The website is slow and it might be annoying. But I'll fix it)

I welcome you to sign-in the guestbook with your thoughts and suggestions :-) You can also reach me at :

ananda@metoolabs.com

Thanks a million to Robert and John for making DSL and also writing an excellent book on it!

Learn, Educate, Share!
Ananda Kammampati


Here is the list of Opensource softwares that I could build on DSL.

CMS Edition
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Joomla
Mambo
Drupal
Websitebaker

CRM Edition
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SugarCRM
vTiger

ERP Edition
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Opentaps
Openbravo
PostgreSQL

Twiki Edition
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Mediawiki
Twiki wiki
Docuwiki
Moin Moin

Forum Edition
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phpBB
Phorum

Server Edition
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SAMBA
OpenLDAP
Webmin

Streaming Edition
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VLC
MPlayer
Slimserver
Icecast Streaming Server
Live555 Streaming Server

eCommerce Edition
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Zencart
osCommerce

Web Publishing Edition
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Wordpress
Gallery
Moodle
phpgedview
webcalendar

Support Tracking Edition
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Request Tracker
Bugzila
Mantis
OTRS

Systems Mgmt. Edition
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Nagios
Webmin

Document Mgmt. Edition
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KnowledgeTree
dotproject
Projectpier
Mr Blogananda:

Per the terms of the GPL, both v2 and v3, I'd like a copy of sources you used in your distribution. Where have you made sources available? :)

Edit: cf: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html and
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html (version 3 since it pertains to certain code in DSL, i.e., "GPL2 or later" etc.)

Edit 2: cf: http://www.linux.com/articles/55285
(Includes quote from DSL's own John Andrews on downstream GPL compliance.)

There's a very big reason I don't offer my own remasters: I don't care to run repositories for upstream sources. Did you think this through very carefully before "trademarking" and offering your sub-distro(s) on another distro's site?

original here.