Abolish flavours

[Dean Sas]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 15:36, Marc <marcdkaplan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I happen to disagree that this theory would both have to stop using
> LiveCDs or require multiple Desktops.  My thought process is that users
> would log onto the ubuntu site, customize the distro that they want,
> the download and burn the ISO.  This way, users not only have the ISO that
> they personally want, but would also have a LiveCD customized the way they
> want rather than be restricted to what we choose (we can still offer
> "default" versions for beginners).

Some initial thoughts on this (though as you've said this is not the
forum for this discussion):

There's been plenty of talk on the ubuntu-website about just how hard
the current method of getting Ubuntu is for inexperienced users
(they've ran a usability study), making things more complicated will
be a non-starter.

The 'default' versions which will *have* to be the far more promoted
ones to make it easy for inexperienced people, then you're gaining
nothing except some cool customised iso builder (which may still be a
nice tool to have, though not sure what effect this will have on the
mirror system etc).

Potentially makes support much harder. Supporter:"Are you using Ubuntu
or Xubuntu?", supportee: *shrugs*

Thanks,
Dean