New Programs for Hardy?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

It makes me think more of those add-on packs or booster packs...whatever
they call them...with video games.  You know, there's The Sims and then you
add  on Vacation and Hot Date and Makin' Magic and whatever else they had?

On Dec 13, 2007 3:46 AM, Blaise Alleyne <balleyne at crucible.net> wrote:

> Markus Hitter wrote:
> >
> > Am 13.12.2007 um 08:41 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
> >
> >> Until CD drives go the way of 5.25" floppy drives, I think we need to
> >> keep
> >> install CDs around.  Making DVD isos with more stuff available is
> >> fine, but
> >> the main part of the distro should fit on a CD.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> >
> > Markus
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> > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
> > http://www.jump-ing.de/
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