[ubuntu-uk] Project Proposal

Martin Fitzpatrick martin.fitzpatrick at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 09:58:15 BST 2006


On 14/10/06, stude.list at googlemail.com <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 13/10/06, Mark Forster <xyzmjf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to suggest that a Ubuntu distro pre-built
> > with a collection of valuable life science applications would be of value to
> > academic and industrial researchers.
> Building a new ubuntu distro is a big step isn't it?
>
> Maybe it would be better to start of small, first of all make sure all
> the needed packages are in the repositories, for now is going to have
> to be universe.
> And then create a package that pulls in all the science apps, similar
> to ubuntu-desktop package.

Aside from just the science applications, doing this for other common
sets of packages could be a real usability benefit for people new to
ubuntu.  Are there already meta packages for things like LAMP?  How
easy is it to get these things added to the repositories?

Martin



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