[ubuntu-in] Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu's mainstream maturity - A rebuttal

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ravi Kumar <ra21vi at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> . DVD's have become quite
>> ubiquitous, prices of DVD's now are less than what CD's where at the
>> time of the first Ubuntu distribution.
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> Who cares about the price of DVD vs CD. The actual aim supposed to have a
> CD image rather than DVD, so that users can spend less download bandwidth
> and get the latest Ubuntu. If you want to have those extra dropped packages,
> you can still download and install (usign apt-get/synaptics). More new
> drivers, support for hardware integrated in Install CD would probably
> require more space. And CD isn't getting bigger in storage. So how this
> would be tackled?
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 i don't think its the download size that they are bothered about. I think
they are looking more at people who will receive Ubuntu CD's . If someone
can download a CD then download an additional cd worth of software is no big
deal.

The point i am trying to make  is - a) either linux or Ubuntu is getting
bloated , so  much so that decent bits of software - esp. software that make
a cd not worth passing around.
b.) dropping gimp is in effect saying this distro is a dumbed down version -
a lite version, and hey if you want the real stuff just get to our repos and
its all there - am sure a newbie won't even know that a software like gimp
exists and hence won't even bother searching. Ubuntu i think is misguidedly
following the adage "what they don't know cannot hurt"

I think this is really not a problem if you have online repository access.
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> Yes it is a problem. Till 9.04 i could install an Ubuntu CD and not worry
that critical software is missing ( in fact not so because a few releases
back thunderbird got dropped then in 9.04 wvdial), In effect i had a fully
operational system. What was missing was the goody stuff - and of course
media codecs.

ram
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