A proposal: Acabuntu

[Rajasekar Karthik]

Hey,
My name is Karthik. I am a student(senior) majoring in Computer
Science at Purdue University, U.S.A.

Acabuntu interests me a lot. I was hoping someone would come up with a
project like that. I agree with you. Open source helps Universities a
lot.

I would like to make few suggestions that would be useful for the project:
1. Ubuntu packages itself can occupy a large portion of Acabuntu Live
CD, which will limit the number of packages designed for scholors.
Instead of making it Live CD, we should make it Live DVD. In that way,
we can have tons of packages customized for scholars.
2. Addition of applications customized specially for various
departments, such as LignumCAD (AutoCAD alternative in Linux) and
thuban for Engineers, Matlab for Mathematicians and so on.
There is a list of applications designed for scholars here:
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml#9

I can keep going on. But, I will stop boring you here and dicuss
briefly about me:
I have written various applictions for my university such as 3D based
Product Configurator, Optimize timing for parallelization of ANOVA
analyses, games, applications and games for Windows CE 3.0. I have few
years of Linux experience, especially Ubuntu.

I hope working with you on this project. Thanks.

On 7/5/05, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <rosselli at ling.unipi.it> 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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> 
> Roberto Rosselli Del Turco      roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
> Dipartimento di Scienze         rosselli at ling.unipi.it
> del Linguaggio                  Then spoke the thunder  DA
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> 
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> 
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Best Regards,
Rajasekar Karthik
karthik085 at gmail.com