I don't know mint, but why don't you use slax? It's very modular and you can put there whatever you want. http://www.slax.org/
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to create a Linux Mint substitute in the easiest possible way, > whatever that turns out to be. I see the benefits of Mint (to the great > unwashed, not necessarily to Geeks) as the following: > > 1) Installs on almost anything. > 2) Easy and quick install. > 3) Works out of the box > A) Including non free things > i) Codecs > ii) NDISwrapper > iii) Other common programs > 4) More intuitive and navigable user interface > > The problem with Linux Mint is they implemented a political litmus test for > their contributors and presumably their community members: > > http://eclelef.blogspot.com/2009/05/palestine_03.html > > That post was originally posted on the official MINT blog and never > retracted. > > I plan to create some sort of Mint substitute with Mint's advantages, but > without the political baggage. It would be open to all political > persuasions: > Tamil or Sinhalese, North or South Korean, Kach or Hezbollah. > > Having neither the brains nor the time to create a forked version, my > initial > plan is the following: > > 1) Study Mint to find its advantages and how it gains them. > 2) Using scripts and maybe a few apps, Tweak Ubuntu to gain those > advantages > 3) In the long run, support a distro with Mint's advantages but without > Mint's > political baggage. > > Once again, Mint isn't a Geek distro, but if you're like me and have to > support Linux users who just want a working computer, it has big > advantages. > If anyone wants to help me with this, please let me know. > > Thanks > > Steve Litt > http://www.troubleshooters.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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