PLD on CD-ROM?

[Michal Moskal]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:35:09PM +0100, Primoz Peterlin wrote:
> Cześć,
> 
> The "PLD on CD-ROM" section on your Web server <http://www.pld.org.pl/> is
> currently saying "Under construction." Before I start transferring
> gigabytes using ftp, I would nevertheless like to ask if PLD is available
> on CD-ROM, and how can I buy it. 

I'm afraid you cannot actually *buy* PLD :< However it can change
in next month or two, there should be some cd-rom's available.

> The reason why I would like to try PLD is that I am more and more
> inclining to the opinion that we are in a no-win situation with major
> distributions like Red Hat, Turbo Linux etc. In the Slovenian Linux
> community we have a fairly strong localization group here (fairly strong
> for a nation of 2 millions, that is :) and the guys have now been working
> hard to meet the deadlines for KDE releases, for instance. Then the next
> release of, say, Red Hat comes out and it turns out that they have
> included some translations that are months old. Pretty disastrous, as it
> doesn't really give the guys who were working on it the satisfaction they 
> would deserve.
> 
> As a companion to a book on Linux
> <http://www.pasadena.si/knjigarna/knjiga.asp?id=9742> we have actually
> even put together our own distribution, i.e. we patched Red Hat 6.2 until
> our part of localization looked somewhat decent, and dubbed the thing
> Pingo Linux. In the long run, however, I don't think we have the needed
> human resources to maintain the effort. As I understand there were similar
> motives that made you start PLD, I am wondering if we can perhaps join
> your efforts.
 
The main reason for creating PLD was not localization, AFAIK.
However, it's important issue for us. And also PLD is much more
open, so if you commit a fix into our CVS you don't need to
wait months for it to appear on FTP.

The main PLD goals is security, IPv6 and localization, it's
targeted mainly at > middle advanced users.

We would apprciate if you (or anybody else, to be exact ;)
if you join us :)

Regards



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