Wouldn't it be interesting to make ubuntu more interresting for companies by creating ubuntu-workstation

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:17:35 -0800, Lloyd D Budd <foolswisdom at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:38:04 +0200, Sivan Green <sivan at piware.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > >In my experience, enterprises which are restrictive about what software to
> > >install, also provide pre-installed images with exactly the set of software
> > >that they will support.  Is there truly a need for a "workstation" profile,
> > >separate from other desktops?
> > >
> > >
> > Maybe we can provide some sort of "tasks" or meta package that can be
> > installed from main, which would pull / remove dependencies to make
> > system a {dektop|workstation|server|...} ?
> 
> I do not know about enterprise , but I would like a meta package
> ("ubuntu-desktop-core") that was the desktop environment minus the
> userspace apps.  I am installing this for the first time and from the
> net.  This would allow me to get using the environment, and then
> consider installing more of the ubuntu-desktop.  This would also might
> be useful in trying to isolate testing of development packages.

Also I cannot see myself wanting by default the 60+MB of foreign
ttf-*.  I am only looking @ warty , so maybe the devel releases
already addresses this .



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Peace be in you ,
Lloyd D Budd