Hi Chris, On Thursday 17 February 2005 19:53, Chris White wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working on a putting Gentoo on a system and selling them out as a > business plan for a partner. While doing this.. I thought to myself > "What would go best on a consumer level Gentoo system". It came to my > mind that having a profile might be a good idea. That way if someone > wants to sell Gentoo systems, we can point them to the correct profile > and it will emerge all the packages and all that's left is to do some > basic configuration (xorg and what not). I don't know how well > supported an idea would be.. and I'll just do it locally if it isn't..
It doesn't seem appropriate to put profiles for "Gentoo-based" distros into our tree. If it's a profile we're going to maintain and promote, it sounds grand. But if it's just there for a reseller ... doesn't feel right to me. On a technical note ... would there have to be a profile per-arch, or is there some cascading profile trickery that would avoid having to do this? > but I'm willing to take suggestions as to what would be good for a > consumer level machine. Please note that by that I mean something > without services and what not (apache and such), but something more > along the lines of "check email, play videos and music, and surf the > internet". rdesktop for home workers who want to access Windows machines (although our kernel doesn't include the patches for making VPN connections into Windows Server ... hrm) Why not take a look at what Corel Linux et al ship in their "desktop editions", and use that as a starting point? Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuPG key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C -- -- [email protected] mailing list
