I know, I know.. we have so many dead projects. However, I believe that by suggesting projects to do, theres a chance that a segment of CEans will be interested in it
Some of you may know about Shift Linux, a linux distro developed by the Neowin community.
Shift Linux
I picked that as an example because it was a community project, something that CE wants to encourage here.
I was thinking at some point in the future, when we have more active members, resources, time, etc, we can create our own Linux distro. Now, why? Other than having a project we can all be involved in, we can make it distinctly CE. That is, a Crazy Engineers distro developed by engineers FOR engineers. We can develop an optimized platform where engineering tools can be run quickly, etc etc.
I guess some of us may already have an idea about it. So, please post in your comments and suggestions.. also a name for the project!
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We can also try designing a very lightweight linux distro that can be used in small devices. For example: robots, electronic PDA's, etc. Pretty much like embedded software, I guess.