On 7/26/05, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/25/05, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, have I lately talked about KLA? :) Did I mention that they are > > spreading out 50.000 copies to schools in France? They are two and a > > half part time developers. There are no timely security updates. > > I'd be embarassed if I were them, if what you say is true, and I would > be absolutely horrified if GNOME did the same. We have a reputation of > quality, and consciously attaching our name to an OS that we don't > intend to support well (in all meanings of that word) is embarassing.
Yes and no. GNOME can't do it because they are playing in a different league. But it is worth to look for a way to get onto the harddisk once the CD is in the drive. > > > My guess is that the average hackers wants as many people to use his > > software as possible. That is kind of applause for the artist :) > > GNOME does not need to become a distribution by itself it simply can > > plug to something existing. > > I'd be fairly happy if we can figure out a way such that an installed > liveCD 'becomes' an Ubuntu install with very slight default changes at > the first update. That's actually tricky ATM, because we remove many > default Ubuntu packages that are wasteful, which means that Ubuntu > might not consider such an install an 'Ubuntu' install, and be > reluctant to support it. I think it would be surprising if nobody would like to benefit from GNOMEs marketing efforts. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list