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

[Nigel Babu]

Hey Guys

There is a specific reason why GIMP was dropped.  If any of you did check
out Lucid alpha, the 64-bit version of Lucid is too big to fit into a
standard disk.  I believe this led to some ruthless cut down of software
being included in the live CD and GIMP got cut.  A lot of discussion has
been going on about this for the past few days and I think its a good idea.
 GIMP is heavy software (when you consider its libraries and requirements)
and not exactly easy to handle for the newbie.  But the main reason is the
size constraints.

Warm Regards
Nigel Babu
www.stackedagainst.blogspot.com


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> If they want to slimdown the image size, they can remove
>> openoffice,evolution,all the man pages,
>> even gnome and they can come up with a mini distro for 50 MB like Damn
>> small linux.
>>
>> Why can't they slimdown to 10MB?
>>
>> they cannot because Tiny Core Linux beat them to this ;-)
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> http://tinycorelinux.com/
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