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Draft fpr Antaeus web page

Here is the dreaft for the web page a bout the distrib.  By the way
the logos are in the indy-logos package on the ftp site under
/independence/indy-6.0-0.8/Indy/RPMS directory

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<h1>Independence Linux 6.0-0.8</h1>

<p>Independence is a distribution based on RedHat built by volunteers.
The version number is made of two parts: 6.0 is the RedHat release we
based upon, 0.8 is the release of the Indy-specific part.<br>


<h2>A distribution belonging to us, the users</p>

<p>
Independence is not just one of these commercial distributions who
have appeearing daily for the last months.  It aims at being a
distribution allowing the users to make hear their voice in
distribution design.  It is built by volunteers who no longer accept
having an aristocracy of distribution designers providing solutions
who have little relation to the problems faced by most Linux users.
It is built by people who don't accept that present distributions time
and again neglect two areas who are vital for Linux future: the desktop
and the personal computer.
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<h2>Why do we revolt?<h2>

<p>
Year after year, version after version distribution designers have
been living in a nice little Unix world who has little relation with
the Linux world we are living.

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<li>Unix was never used at home so distribution designers ignored the
problems of the dialup user, made distributions who are basically
useless for a personal user or made the absurd assumption that people
would let their computers burn power -power paid by user- 24 hours a day.

<li>Distribution designers still ship distributions who are basically
unforgiving to user errors and start far too many daemons by default
-each uneeded daemon is a potential security hole-.  In fact they rely
in the Unix model: en expensive system used in organizations who will
provide an experienced system administrator for fixing problems.

<li>Distribution people still assume that Linux will remain confined
to the server role like its Unix brethren.  Thus they didn't acre
about manual mountings -a minor problem in servers, a sizable loss of
time in workstations-, neglect productivity software and don't seem to
know that you could need muvh more than Samba when intracting with
Windows computers.

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The problem is: Linux is unexpensive and that does not make it an
unexpensive Unix but a system who will be used for tasks Unix was
never used and by people who are different of traditional Unix users.
Linux growth needs Linux expands in those areas was Unix absent and
who are presently sorely negelected by traditional distributions.  For
Linux growing until it displaces Windows we heve to learn to <HREF
<em>Think Linux</em>>.
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<p>
We at project Independence are tired of seeing people asking for help
from Windows because nobody cares about the problems of the dial-up
user, we are tired of distributions who assume we don't have a life,
we are tired of unforgiving distributions built on the assumption the
Linux user has a nanny to fix problems until he knows how to fix them
by himself.  When at office we are tired of being unable to get the
messages of the NT printserver and we are tired of the sardonic smile
in the face of the Windows activist when he see us struggle with
smbmount.  We are tired of waiting for a distribution designed for the
<Linux world HREF Think Linux>.
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<H2>The Independence distribution

Independence is a free distribution designed for the users by users.
We built it because we feel that by ignoring those people who don't
fit in the classical Unix schema distribution designers are treating
them like second class users.  They are also slowing Linux growth
outside Unix echological niche that is 95% of the users.

You can find more info about the distribution in the<HREF distribution
page>.

Independence is volunteer work and it will make faster progress if
<em>you</em> participate.  If you believe that the Linux user is
different and needs <HREF <em>Linux</em> solutions Think Linux>, if
you believe that we, users of the front line, are in the best position
to determine what is good for us, if you want Linux spreading
everywhere then

<H3> Join us <HREF> Page d'adhésions <H3>

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			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org