A proposal: Acabuntu

[Roberto Rosselli Del Turco]

Hi all Ubuntu devs,
I am a long time Gnome user who also happens to work at a University in
Italy. I've been working in the Humanities Computing field during the
last few years, and together with other people we've founded a site
called Digital Medievalist (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/).

Lately I've been working (well, started working...) on a customized
Ubuntu Live CD especially designed for scholars: XML editors, TEI
(http://www.tei-c.org/) DTDs and documentation, image processing
software, office applications and the like. This got me thinking: has
anyone considered an Acabuntu (= Ubuntu for academics) version of Ubuntu
Linux? It would be a boon for more advanced users (those already aware
of Linux: I can claim at least one convert to Ubuntu :) and a good
showcase for those using/tempted by Macs. Open source makes a lot of
sense for academics, we often tend to work and organize research in a
very similar way. It would be very nice to have a specialized distro for
people like me.

I know about an Edubuntu project, which is similar albeit with a
different focus. If anyone is willing to start working on Acabuntu,
please contact me, I'd like to work on such a project!

Thanks in advance,

Ciao

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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco      roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dipartimento di Scienze         rosselli at ling.unipi.it
del Linguaggio                  Then spoke the thunder  DA
Universita' di Torino           Datta: what have we given?  (TSE)
 
  Hige sceal the heardra,     heorte the cenre,
  mod sceal the mare,       the ure maegen litlath.  (Maldon 312-3)