On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, D. S. Sarmiento wrote:
I tend to disagree. Mandrake Linux for example has over 4000 packages in
its latest incarnation. I _would not_ want to :
1. accept the default installation and install hundreds of packages i
would not even touch
2. go through the list of packages one by one, selecting and deselecting
what packages i like or dislike, thereby wasting my time in front of the
PC.
I would like to pop a CD into the drive, let it boot and it install
_exactly_ what i want it to install. The packages in the CD are only
those that i need, nothing more or less.
This is the nature of the Redhat CD that Q-Linux made (kickstart), and the
mandrake 7.2 i installed in linux10.
So this calls for custom RPMS, custom package configs all built into a
modified RH or MDK distro.
> too time effort to be wasted on yet another Linux distro. why not
> build on the strengths of the distros that we currently have?
> believe me, the last thing that this sector (government) would like to
> have is yet another distro, your PLUG Linux distro.......the wealth of
> bits and pieces in the current distros is more than enough to
> accomplish what you intend to.
>
>
> Denis Sarmiento
> Lockheed Martin
> The Aerospace Company
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:17:11
> Marvin T. Pascual wrote:
>
> >> Example: these government offices have tons of excel, powerpoint, and word
> >> files that they now want to use in their new opensource desktops and for
> >> some reason wala silang StarOffice; what do they do?
> >
> >That's why if we can make a PLUG Linux distro for x86 Desktops, it should
> >have a StarOffice 5.2 already and no need to include some miscellaneous
> >packages.
> >
>
>
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