Penguin for the people?

Today I had the opportunity to read the white paper written by Bruce Perens about UserLinux and his proposal for moving forward with the project. I took the opportunity to join the discussion group mailing list as I think that this is an interesting opportunity for myself to get involved in the linux community and offer something towards a big project. As companies like TurboLinux (Asia Pacific), RedHat, SuSE and others move closer to the enterprise level to stay in business (hey that is what they are doing business for) we need to make sure that there is always something that the people, as in the average linux user base can have access to. Interestingly enough it looks like UserLinux will be based on the debian distribution giving a nice stable and free core to the system with a great packaging system using .deb files and the apt system for easy access to new files and fixes. Debian is also used in projects such as Knoppix and ClusterKnoppix (a variant of knoppix with the ability to create your own server room cluster, great for education labs). I hope that I can add something to this project and help make sure that there is always a Penguin for the people....