On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:17 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:31:31 +0100 > Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm sure that we don't want to create a GNOME distribution for > > installation. Why aren't any of the existing distributions acceptable? > > > > Sorry. I didn't want to say, existing distributions are not acceptable. > On the other hand, it is difficult for most people to hand over a usual > CD to somebody you hardly know. > > You need good arguments. "This is Linux with lots of cool software." > is seldomly sufficient.
But "use this crappy distro just because it comes with this particular software by default" is not a good argument either. We don't want people to experience that lack of support. I think a website that advertised the software that you care about, with help on installing it on whatever distro they have, would be far more useful an effective. > In fact, Windows comes pre-installed and you can > get lots of additional standard software for free (as in beer) already - > some of them OpenSource. > > But: "This is Linux, including the software you'll need for your > studies." might do the trick. > > At least, it will do the trick if one day, you can add "The whole > department (faculty, college) uses it." :-) > > So it basically depends on the distributions if they are willing to add > the additional scientific software to the package - either on a second > CD, or included on the installation or Live CD. > > I'd be glad if we would be able to convince existing distribution to > join and help. I'll try to be more clear in the wiki page(s). -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list