Just went to a bar in a nearby town and miraculously got a contact of a fairly big investor by talking to the barman there. Apparently said investor is also technically inclined, and has a fair amount of financial resources to help make my plan to make my own distribution and compete with Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE a thing.

Talk to barmen people! They're the people that have contacts - in pretty much every industry. They're the people that know people.

Makes sense, honestly.

They're around all the time and meet a lot of people on the regular.

Good luck!

Your distro project sounds quite interesting, got any documentation on it yet? 😅

@chilledfrogs So far it's still just blueprints... But I am considering to spend the next few years building it, and then when I deem it stable for distribution (which I'll be very stringent about, stability across all deployments is something I deem extremely important) that's likely when I'll start out and register my own company. This way I can separate development from actual sales (as I intend to sell this distribution to the server market where stability and ease of deployment are seriously needed).

I agree, the great (job) opportunities are the ones you stumble into when you never suspect them.

I guess you'd take Debian as a foundation?
EDIT: Because I guess you would need more people for a "from scratch" project.

@finiteAutomaton ideally I'd build myself, but I'd indeed need people to build the dependency model and servers to build it all into packages yeah... But if I were to go with a base distro and just add my own sauce on top of it, Debian is what I'd go with yes.

So I would presume the distro would remain entirely open-source and you would charge for support services for companies and institutions?

@Condor set up your company in a letter box in hong kong that way you don't have to pay taxes.

A distro.. Wow! I hope it all goes well, man!

Is it weird that, though I don't know you, I'm proud of you? 🥺

@telephantasm Thanks! I really appreciate it :D