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.