Announcing StrayOS Alpha!
Forum Linux/Free BSD : General Discussion Announcing StrayOS Alpha!
Yay!
I bet it doesn't even work.
I haven't even tried it yet... with school and all that jazz.
But here's my own Fedora-based distro! 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/strayos/
I do not have the energy for this
/2:30am
https://sourceforge.net/projects/strayos/
If the ISO is not there, please check in a few hours, it's probably still uploading and I'm still possibly at sleep/school.
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
-Slyvia Plath Lady Lazarus
Awesome project and I'm sure a whole learning experience for you. I even rather like the name. I do have a couple of observations though. Please don't take these as against the work you've done, they are more observations on the state of play at the moment.
The spin is out, you're now going to be subject to a whole load of people asking you to add things to it and expressing their own thoughts on how it should be done. At this point you can do what most linux forks do, either ignore them and go your own way or, like far to many spins, let it fall into an unmaintained state.
Please don't get me wrong on this, I'm impressed with the project. It's more an observation on the challenges that Linux faces by virtue of its flexibility and open nature. I just wonder if perhaps the focus for a lot of smaller maintainers would not be better spent on customisation scripts that take a well supported base OS like Debian and allow end users to customise. Download the base OS then run 'Music Station' or 'Render Station' scripts to add and configure the parts they need for those tasks. I'm thinking something like http://ninite.com/ but task focussed and making use of the native repositories of the base OS chosen.
Either way, white hats off to you for having taken the time to do this build 
Reply to audiovoodoo
Quite frankly I'm still learning... albeit slowly.
You know I don't ever consider the forceful advice of others... not even Linux_0 for a while.
I might just learn how to script better, like how all the individual labs that run Scientific Linux do it.
Most importantly, the interests I serve are my own . If you happen to stumble across my distribution and you like it, great! I couldn't care less about what others think.
For this very first release I think I am going straight to beta after this alpha, around June. When I get my icons and logos fixed, I will make a final release.
Or not. Depends on my attention span. I might just have my yum software customisation options in a text document for my convenience.
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
-Slyvia Plath Lady Lazarus
Reply to amdfangirl
I accidently managed to exceed my internet cap somehow. I was downloading the install crap for my distro and bam! 15GiB+ of internet, gone. Worst thing was, I didn't even get the OS to compile properly.
I give up.
Let's never speak about this ever again. (it's too risky to do OS dev).
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
-Slyvia Plath Lady Lazarus
Reply to amdfangirl
I've got me a 50Mb/3Mb connection with 400GB/month. Not sure if they enforce the cap or not, my ISP is pretty cool about things like that. 
Message edited by Pyroflea on 03-04-2012 at 12:24:23 AM
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