New Programs for Hardy?

[Blaise Alleyne]

Markus Hitter wrote:
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> Am 13.12.2007 um 08:41 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
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>> Until CD drives go the way of 5.25" floppy drives, I think we need to 
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>> install CDs around.  Making DVD isos with more stuff available is 
>> fine, but
>> the main part of the distro should fit on a CD.
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> What about a "feature" CD? I mean, one live CD with the basics and a few 
> showcase apps (OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution, etc.) and another one 
> with more specialized applications. There could even exist different 
> feature CDs for developers (working gcc, Eclipse, GNUstep, ...), 
> entertainment (Photo editing, video cutting, ...) and others.
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Doesn't this sort of sound like distribution variants (ie. Ubuntu Studio) or Synaptic->Edit->Mark Packages by Task? At what point would creating several CDs cease to represent a single Ubuntu distribution?

Not that I'm opposed to the idea, it just seems like there is some overlap.
 
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