Hello everybody. I'll try to express some thoughts I had reading your email in the form of constructive criticism. When I used Ubuntu, I thought the practice of making another whole distribution for specific DEs really strange and unefficient (why duplicate branding, forums and co. just when one piece of the OS is different?); public-specific versions are a bit less strange to me. My point is that there exist other solutions (tasks, package list replication, custom install CDs...) that can be used without needing to change the name :) My viewpoint may come from the fact that Debian aims to be the universal operating system, whereas Ubuntu is built with a desktop-centric view.
> My name is Ivan fro Italy and I'm Ubuntu user and I love this OS Out of curiosity: Have you given Debian a try too? I don't know how easy it is to make yet another *buntu distribution, perhaps this could be useful to you: http://blends.alioth.debian.org/ > *SHEBUNTU* would be a new version based on Ubuntu dedicated to women > world. Is there only one women world? How do you define it? (more on that later) > In surveys carried out most of the women interviewed, want a simple and > already complete system with no further complications in the > installation of programs or other, Do those surveys distinguish between novice female users and savvy ones? Could you kindly provide us with links or other references? Why should a distro for novice female users be different from a novice male users? > <<My wife doesn't want use Ubuntu yet so I want create a new version > of Ubuntu for all female world, simple version based on Ubuntu for approach > all women at the Linux and Open Source world with installed all tools, > programs and utility for them, like horoscope, fertility calculation, > diary, meteo, links at the most famous female sites,pidgin plugins, > skype, with female themes.....and many other>> Excuse the harshness, but a women-tailored selection of package is one that encompases gullibility, reduction to a sexual role, non-free software and shiny backgrounds? It seems to me more harmful than useful. Now I'll wait for actual women opinions :) Kind regards, Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
