[ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:24 PM, Vivek <viveksh2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:40 +0530, Parthan SR wrote:
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> > Vivek wrote:
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> > > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India.
> Wasn't
> > > > difficult to answer :P.
> > Sorry, still I do not get it?
>
> different wallpaper, different theme, sounds & possibly diff icon.
> Different default services, different default set of installed
> packages.Indian calendar + list of holidays.  Claws as default client
> rather than hte evolution monster... and many others.
>
> > > > IMHO, the existing ubuntu distribution isn't a very good option for
> > > > people with poor net connection or old PCs. Even without any thing
> nifty
> > > > running, ubuntu takes about 200mb of RAM on my system. At my home, I
> > > > still use an old system with 256mb RAM. I believe similar would be
> the
> > > > case with many households. With such mem usage, system would just
> crawl.
> > > > It's just a thought, but I believe that it's very important to make
> > > > ubuntu a bit leaner.
> > Xubuntu?
>
> Have u tried XUBUNTU ? It's touted to be lightweight alternative to
> ubuntu but my personal experience has been very different. Most of the
> time it relies on Gnome packages. Other than a different window
> manager , and thunar there's not much different between them. It's based
> on GTK2 and relies on many gnome packages. It definitely uses "less"
> resources but isn't that light.
>
> Fluxbox: There's already a fluxubuntu distribution.
>
> I'm not talking just abt different window manager but a better and
> friendlier linux distro based on ubuntu.
>
> > Yes, you can use Ubuntu to create your own custom distros, may
> > be using WMs like fluxbox which are comparatively lighter to a GNOME or
> > KDE based Ubuntu. But, at the end of the day the question is who is
> > going to maintain the packages for them?
>
> > IMHO, we can try contributing
> > to existing packages and packaging them for the latest upstream version
> > than doing something like this.
>
> > > > Yes, I was referring to development of new as well as improvement of
> > > > existing features. there's still a lot of scope for improvement in
> > > > ubuntu.
> > Yes sure, If you have any new idea of a cool app propose it, there will
> > be some one in this list who wants to join and make it. We had some
> > projects started in our team, but as we have become more and more
> > occupied with our job we are not able to be active. Would you like to do
> > something? Please propose, we were here to help you :)
> > > > Apparently, I'm wrong - the group focuses more on promotion rather
> than
> > > > development.
> > >
> > AFAIK, we have never done any promotion till now. I am eager to know
> > what made you conclude on that?
> > Disclaimer: The Ubuntu India Loco team has nothing to do with the "Ubunt
> > India Promoters" group in Launch Pad, as of now.
>
> Thanks for that clarification.
>
> Cheers,
> Vivek
> >
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> > With Regards,
> > Parthan aka Technofreak
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Hello
If you are interested in developing an Indian Edition of ubuntu ref:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndubuntuTeam

Looking Forward to your support..


-- 
Bhavani Shankar.R
https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community  member.
What matters in life is application of mind!,
It makes great sense to have some common sense..!
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