[ubuntu-us-ut] Airing of grievances (was Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude')

Aaron Toponce aaron.toponce at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 04:34:01 BST 2010


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:07:29PM -0600, Benjamin Cardon wrote:
> I feel like one thing Ubuntu could really use is a first-time-run
> welcome screen that suggests things that a new Linux user will want to
> install. Rolling things that require removing tools that have been
> available by default for years in a standard install just doesn't make
> sense to me. They are always going to be bumping into that CD size
> limit as long as they have it, so they really need to come up with
> alternate solutions to the problem. If 15mb is a big deal, they really
> have bigger problems than seemingly duplicate tools...

What bigger problems than duplicate tools? Knowing the audience they're
targeting, the CD limit and the tools on the disk, what would you remove
if you were Canonical?

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