On 6/17/06, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that it is a little bit silly to have all of these Ubuntu derivatives (that are basically a Ubuntu package list) be treated as seperate distros. Ubuntu should host these package lists and make them available during the installer.
Yabbit. "Host" the package lists and then make them available? Does that involve having to have an Internet connection during install? Maybe that'd fly for a "power user" distro, but not Ubuntu. And the variety of configurations available for Ubuntu surely wouldn't fit on a single CD. And we are talking CD, not DVD, for Ubuntu Lite's target audience. They could extend the concept of installation to the initial downloading (or ordering) of the distro. Maybe you fill out a four or five question form, and it delivers a link to you with a somewhat customized distro meeting your needs. Or maybe you could call them sub-distros instead of distros? Language has a funny way of controlling how we see things... On another point, the LinuxTracker article Carl linked to says, "The idea [of Ubuntu Lite] is to bring the power of Ubuntu to the typical users of Legacy hardware (ie the grandma who gets an old P2 set up for her but does not know how to use it)." Seems to me that if somebody is going to set up the computer for you, that they have quite a few choices other than this. Ubuntu's power is in installation (including configuration) and package management. Grandma doesn't need to worry about either of these if somebody's doing it for her. My father is a grandma-user. I built his computer and installed Gentoo Linux on it. It's the distro I'm most familiar with, it let me set it up as light as possible on the old hardware he has, and it works. He's been running Gentoo for about a year and a half now. (Without a single update of the system...) Anyway, that's my two hundredths of a euro. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
