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On 10/19/2014 02:44 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. wrote: > Hello, > > I think I am not explaining myself properly at all. > > 'apostate' was an error. The data recovery operating system was an example that shows that specialized operating systems exists. Many of the tools on those data recovery operating systems are available for typical Linux distros. However, they are put together in a specialized distro for efficiency. Similar to Ubuntu studio, or Edubuntu, for other examples. Is a libuntu too much to ask? > > I'm not starting a project. Just wondering if one already exists. I think I will start one though if none exists already. I'm pretty sure you will have to create this and if one silently exists I am keen to find out what problem not solved elsewhere they were attempting to solve. Like others have pointed out this is *A LOT* of work but since you are undeterred by hard work I will use myself as an example. In the past year after nearly two decades of having a variant of BSD, Linux, Solaris as my primarily computer I spent an entire year using Microsoft Windows as my primary OS. I was actually pleasantly surprised at my misplaced anxiety over this. Yes there was some friction but it finally hit me that in my case it isn't the Operating System that I care about... rather it is how well I can use ViM See the Operating System in a weird way (I always laughed at emacs users devotion to -what seemed to me- countless hours of making sure they never left emacs) All my frustration with Microsoft Windows it turned out was mostly because the ViM on Windows was harder to "tame". What does this have to do with your OS? I suspect most users (we aren't snowflakes!) are much like this. Whatever tool you use the most, whatever tool you've mastered must work like you want. In effect you are volunteering to promise never to disrupt this. You are volunteering to devote hours to ensure not only that you will make sure ViM works like I want, but to fight with upstream developers to ensure that ViM works the way I like as a librarian. Then add all the other tools that others like and I don't know about you... but I'm very terrified. As one who recently ditched Ubuntu is there anything in particular that turned you away from it that any of the other .deb distros don't fix? At the risk of telling you how to spend your time, ;-) I'm willing to bet it would be much less effort to fix this Ubuntu problem dealing with the Ubuntu devs (I've found them reasonable to work with) than trying to heard the cats around "yet another debian fork" Cheers and good luck, ./fxk -- You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess.