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RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it
occurs to me their is an opportunity
for them to start to fill the Home market niche now. I sent this message
also to RedHat tech support
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are
not interested in it perhaps
others will take on the challenge and create this new distribution.
Either way I think it should
be based a RedHat distribution with additional apps and tools added.
To get an idea of what I am thinking of, think of a Compaq Presario,
which is bundled with a modem
and fax/answering machine software, has power management software
pre-installed, etc.
The Linux@Home Distribution would come with the following
+ Desktop Environment
KDE, CDE, Gnome (or at least the two free ones) - choice is
important though
Include several window managers and a tool to easily switch
(for more advanced users)
+ Office Suite
Applixware and/or StarOffice
+ Other Applications
GIMP - graphics tool
....etc....other best in class Linux tools
+ Other convenience apps
such as xmcd for an audio cdplayer
+ Games
yes, a few should be included as they are now in Redhat
+ Data/Fax/Voice answering machine software
Hylafax, vgtty, voice-0.6 (all setup to work together
properly and seemlessly detecting
the type of phone calls and doing the right thing)
+ Automount of cdroms and floppies
Setup amd to automount cdroms and floppies so Linux behaves
more like users of NonUnix
systems are accustomed to.
+ Power management
Develop an installation tool which autodetects powersaving
support and enables it in X-windows
on installation.
+ Login
User choice, no login required (configured to autologin to some
user account) and start Xwindows
OR - user may choose console login (usual) or XDM (or KDM if
they chose KDE)
+ Dialup configuration
Many excellent tools exist for this including the one included
with KDE.
Need to consider Dialup as a whole. A tool which will address
all of the following
would be useful.
Dial on Demand (yes or no, and allow changing all
related settings)
Configure ISP ( allow you to define dialup ISPs sim
to Win95 - and the KDE tool)
Caching nameserver on local machine
(a simple toggle which would
turn this on or off for the user)
+ Email
Again try to treat this as a whole.
In one lpace the user should be able to configure their email
info including handling
multiple email pickups using something like fetchmail, their
return address (use
to setup sendmail properly) etc.
+ The Web
Include a caching proxy server preconfigured to speed web access
(such as apache)
and block advertising (ex: internet junkbuster)
Any thoughts on this? Any other ideas? Is RedHat already planning such a
distribution?
Would it supply Gnome only? Anyone want to work on such a distribution?
Jeffrey Perry
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