Kennel Linux Distrowatch presence

[wiak]

Kennel Linux has never applied to be featured via Distrowatch, which limits outside knowledge of its existence to Puppy Forum visitors, most of whom presumably come here with only an interest in Puppy itself. Since FirstRib based distros have been usefully available since early 2019, with many powerful features, it seems a pity we make no attempt to let the greater Linux community know about them.

We have many KL distro variants including various versions fully system and repo compatible with Void Linux, Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, and easy capability to provide variants with Debian or Devuan full system and repo/package management compatibility, including very powerful and flexible frugal install capability.

Surely time to tell the world about this?

Personally, I would consider it better if forum took more central interest in coordinating such forum distro product marketing, but never gone beyond Puppy-centric approach thus far in its evolving history. I don't believe that approach is in best overall forum interest. However, which KL distro(s) to let the world know about as exemplars of what the underlying and simple to use FirstRib build system can easily produce?

[wanderer]

hi everyone

i must strongly agree with wiak

all this great work is essentially being hidden

all of it is in the puppy spirit

it needs to be showcased and incorporated into puppy

not doing this is a great disservice to the puppy community

the people that are attracted to puppy
are attracted to the concept
not any particular piece of code

the proof is all the different variants that have been made since day one and over the years

wanderer

[Wiz57]

Well wiak, since you were the one that was adament about this forum not being just about Puppy Linux, go ahead and make the DistroWatch announcement!
You are the most qualified developer of the FirstRib build system that I am aware of, so in my opinion you are the most knowledgeable person with the
deepest understanding of how these distros function and that places you in the best postition to answer questions from potential new users.

[dimkr]

Personally, I would consider it better if forum took more central interest

Who is 'forum'? What stops you from submitting it to DW yourself?

[wanderer]

if every individual project is submitted to distrowatch it fragments the effort
the synergy that is achieved by everyone coming to this forum and working together is what advances puppy

many hands make easy work

wanderer

[Wiz57]

if every individual project is submitted to distrowatch it fragments the effort
the synergy that is achieved by everyone coming to this forum and working together is what advances puppy

many hands make easy work

wanderer

Conversely, "too many cooks spoil the broth"!

[bigpup]

If you want the Linux OS you produce to be on DistroWatch.

Then you should submit it to them.

That simple.

How do you think Easy OS and Fatdog64 got posted to DistroWatch.

Do wonder why Fatdog64 is not at least in the top 100 page hit ranking

[rockedge]

You are the most qualified developer of the FirstRib build system that I am aware of

Unless you are talking about the technical mechanics and inner workings of the build scripts themselves, I disagree. There are more than one.

Who do you think has the most experience actually using these FirstRib build scripts and utilities in the real world and has produced working distros to show for it?

@Sofiya has constructed and shared several PLUG files and distro assembly scripts that puts it all together.

Somebody who can put together KLV-Hyperland in ISO and in build script form knows what they are doing I would surmise.

Success is in the details.