Well, after stepping down as Admin from Dreamlinux forums and passing everything over to djsroknrol, and also handing the Administration of Fossunet to Ch@d, I now have the freetime to finally get down to creating a distro.
It-s something I have played with in the past, LFS, Remastersys, Debian Live scripts etc, but things always got in the way, and there never was enough free time. I was (and still am) on the Dreamlinux dev team, and was working on a Fluxbox module for DL4.0, but after 4 months of little contact from the DL dev team and not knowing what was going to happen with the project. I decided to let it go, and use my time on something that I had more control over and to work with people who I am in regular contact with.
Luckily for me a few of the LxH Crew were also interested in putting something together (Bruce, Ch@d, Palemoon). We decided to create a Debian based WM and Conky using distro, as we are all Conky and Window Manager hackers.
The final decision was to include Window Maker (Palemoon), Fluxbox (Me), OpenBox and Awesome (Also popular), and create a whole heap of Conky configs (Bruce) and finish it all off with custom graphics, wallpapers, logos and themes (Chad).
So far so good, as of this post I am uploading our 3rd development Alpha which will hopefully be ok as the first Public-Alpha-One.
It’s still a bit rough around the edges, it is an Alpha after all, but considering it’s on a Debian Squeeze (Testing) base, it goes like lightening and is already pretty stable. Whatsmore, Bruce’s Conky scripts and Ch@d’s graphics have really made it a bit of an eye pleaser for all the Window Manager and Conky Hackers out there.
Although this is a personal project for us, and we are not competing against other distros, we are going to give it our all, hopefully learn something along the way, and you never know, other people might like it too.
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