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Instead of "yet another new distro" why not focus on improving package management and/or ease of use on something that already has a larger code base. If it is "based on PCLinuxOS" or Mandriva why not put the focus into improving those. Personally, a few derivatives of Ubuntu don't bother me as the core stays mostly the same although experience says install Ubuntu first the apt-get the flavor you want. Fedora & OpenSuse should partner together to get more done though the "parents" of each (Red Hat & Novell) do contribute greatly. The mess that is RPM is annoying. Also, give the user the option to tell the distro to get out of the way of helping sometimes. That's a big part of the reason I lean towards Arch, Gentoo, and Slackware. All the hand holding gets quite sickening.

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