A proposal: Acabuntu

[Martin Meredith]

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Other than having a Version of Ubuntu with different packages installed
by default, what do you have planned?

Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> 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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