Whats the single most difficult thing about making a GNU/Linux distribution?
It sounds like an incredibly difficult job with a hugedministrative overhead. A: Time. Time is the killer. Most people involved in Linux and distribution development have fulltime jobs during the day. This means they have limited amount of time to dedicate to Linux each week. Ideally I would love to be sponsored to work on Kororaa fulltime but that sort of thing doesn’t happen often. The administrative overhead is not very big. I am not selling anything and I am not marketing anything. I make a product which people will learn about simply by word of mouth, and I give it away for free. The biggest hurdle is hosting and transferring the Kororaa files which are distributed as ISO images for people to burn to CD and install with. We have a number of mirrors which provide an invaluable service, as well as file sharing protocols like bittorrent. As I donate my time to create Kororaa, others donate their time helping out on the forums and IRC. People test products and provide feedback. Some e
