On 6/18/06, Rick Funderburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 18, 2006, at 15:37 , Todd Walton wrote:
> 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.
Not quite what I had in mind. By hosting, I was thinking more on the
lines of having the forums, support, and description page. It
wouldn't be hard to have even hundreds of different package lists
ship on the CDs (they compress well).
Don't want to overwhelm the beginning user with too much information.
But I would think that a single CD distribution (per CPU type) could
handle all of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu, which are mostly
different user interfaces. With the addition of EDU programs for
Edubuntu. Sort of "choose one" and stand back while the installation
takes place.
carl
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