The document outlines the development of a Linux distribution by a team at a Pakistani university, emphasizing its educational benefits and user-friendly features. It discusses the historical context of Linux, the unique aspects of their distribution such as media format support and ease of use, and potential target markets including educational institutions and the armed forces. The project plan includes milestones for development, team structure, and marketing strategies, positioning the distribution as accessible and cost-effective for users.

1. VU’s Linux
VU’s Own Linux Distribution

2. Our Introduction
Umair Iftikhar My Friends (Team who help)
 Student BSCS
BC120400775
 CISCO Certified
Network & Linux
Instructor
 Assistant Manager AR
& D, National Computer
Masters (PVT) LTD.
 Arqam Saleem
BS120401622
 Iqra Tahir
BC120402727

3. Linux Introduction
What is Linux? A Small Introduction…

4. From Past to Now…
 It All Started With UNIX
in 1970 by AT&T Lab (Later Bell Lab)
 Then Came Linux, in 1991 by Linus Torvalds
 PC-based operating system
 Initially was developed for 80x86 processors (IA32 or
i386 architecture processors)
 Today it support various processor
AMD, Motorola 6800, Power PC, etc

5. Linux Distros
Each distro is a package including the OS and
different applications
 Different distros provide different applications and
require different installations steps
 The package includes
 Core Linux OS (also called Kernel)
 X Window System and GUI interfaces
 Graphical desktop (e.g., GNOME orKDE)
 Different applications
 Corel, KOffice, Tex, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, etc.
 Documentations

6. Top Linux Distros
Rank Distribution
1 Mint
2 Ubuntu*
3 Debian
4 openSUSE
5 Zorin
6 Korora
7 Fedora
8 Simplicity
9 Mageia
Source: http://distrowatch.com/

7. Some Market Statistics
What Market use? And Why?

8. Desktop OS Market Share

9. Server OS Market Share
 Snapshot from Wikipedia

10. Linux, the final frontier.

11. Linux vs Windows

12. Why People not prefer Linux?
 Difficult to use
 Package installers are not available
 Installation of new Linux is Difficult
 Less Regional support
 Phobia about easiness
 A Common concept that MS Window is best
 Less Hardware Support

13. VU Linux
Our today’s Topic | Our Linux

14. University Benefits
 First University of Pakistan have own Linux Distro
 Students have a more advanced Platform to make
practices on Linux and about OS
 More Job opportunities for those students who chose
VU’s Linux Distro as final project.
 We can have special clientage to sale OS Services
 Most stable release of VU’s Linux Distro can use to
sale

15. Why VU’s Linux Distro?
 More User Friendly then other Linux Distributions
 Free of cost for the PC Users
 Graphical Process for Installing software
 Package Management tools already installed in it
 Our Linux Distro can easily support .EXE files
 More Stable then other Linux Distro
 Our Linux have media format supports by default
(Like Ubuntu is not supporting .MP3 files by default)
 Pakistan Pro OS that provide Regional Languages
and other Regional supports
 Education Supporting features for Students

16. Future Scope
VU Linux Distro can be transform as
 Server OS
 Mobile OS
 A stable and complete release use to sale for PC

17. Major Possible Clients
 Education Institutes because of Education related
features.
 Armed Forces that have issue to use Windows and
Other OS for the Hacking and Data leakage issues
 Robotics organizations who want there Own OS

19. How to start?
2 ways to Start this project

20. Linux From Scratch

21. Fork from Other Linux Distro

22. Best Method in my Opinion
 Fork from other Distro
 Easy and a quick method
 Need less sources and men
power
 Can gain benefit from others
experiences

23. The simple choices
 Free or non-free? By that we mean, do you want
your finished distro to be 100% free software
Free is best in the begging
 Live CD, installable, or both?
At the start Installable after that also Live CD
 Default Packages?
 KDE, Gnome, or something else?
 The desktop is the first thing people will see when they
start

25. GNOME 3.8

26. Unity (My Favorite)

27. CINNAMON (Recommendation)

28. Special about VU’s Distro
 Be cutting edge
 Be super stable
 Be super-light
 Focus on the group of users
 Looks Good
 Aim for ease of use
 Focus on a country or a region
 Build a community
 Target some hardware

29. Some Suggested Packages
 VLC Media Player
 Libra Office
 Autoconf
 Archive Manager
 Deja Dup Backup Tool
 Xdiagnose
 Foxit Reader
 ThunderBirdMail
 FirefoxWeb Browser
 Transmission BitTorrent
 Brasero Disc Burner
 Gstreamer extra plugins
 OnBoard (onscreen
keyboard for gnome)
 Gdebi Packgae Installer
(gdebi)
 Compiz
 Wine (Window program
loader)
 ViewFile (Gnome
Crypto service)
 AptURL

31. Feasibility

32. Time Frame
 Students Team Training (2 Months)
 1st Milestone: Initial Desktop version release (1 Year)
 Target Education related User
 Initial build and compilation
 In house testing
 2nd Milestone: 1st Stable Release (2 Years)
 Community Updates
 Students Final Projects
 3rd Milestone: 2nd Stable Release (2 Years)
 Totally customize OS
 Different releases for different user groups

33. Team Required
 2 of our Respectful Teachers to lead us
 Approximately 5 to 10 Students
 Work voluntarily
 Have concept about
 Operating Systems Computer Programing GCC
Compiler
 Students of Final Project
 To chose Final project about Linux

34. Cost
 No special system need
 Less Cost at initial milestones
 Volunteer help of students
 Works as Final Year Project

35. Marketing Idea
 Slogan for initial release: OS for Educators and
Students
 Subdomain on VU’s Official Domain
linux.vu.edu.pk
 Submission in DistroWatch.com
 After achieve 2nd milestone Media Press Release

36. Feel Free to Ask

37. Special Thanks To

38.  Sir Naveed A Malik

39. My Team
 Arqam Saleem
 Iqra Tahir
 And my Campus Fellows
 To make research and experiment on different
scenerios

40. Thanks To Family
 Maa Ji
 My Baba Jan – Iftikhar Ahmad
 My Wife