Pre-Install program

[s.roman]

I guess if you want an older person, who just wants to use a computer
without learning all that much about it, to keep using windows and
having his/her computer break down all the time, it's not such a good
"pre-install program", but I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't mind
"avoiding" the learning curve. Not everyone has to become linux savvy.
I, for one, would just like some of the people I know to have a good,
reliable, and secure operating system without having to RTFM, you
know?


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:04:16 -0800, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
<delbert.hudson at losangeles.af.mil> wrote:
> Wim,
> 
> first off, i agree 100% with sebastian.
> 
> just out of curiosity, to what would performing this 'miraculous' conversion
> accomplish. it also has the insidious feel of tool for data gathering or
> mining
> for some less than wholesome use later on. i would NOT feel comfortable with
> having such a piece of code peruse my hd's, not to mention that in certain
> environments such as in my ofc such an operation would have major security
> policy implications.
> 
> it just sounds like a way to avoid {re: lazy] traversing learning curves.
> 
> sorry just dont like the idea.
> 
> ~piranha
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Sebastian
> Beschke
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:54 AM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Pre-Install program
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Wim Vriend wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is it maybe an idea to make a program for ubuntu that's searching on a
> > harddisk for e-mail's, email addresses, photographs, MS office documents
> > etc, etc. Convert the e-mails to a suitable format for Evolution, MS
> > office documents for Open Office, Photoshop and Corel Draw documents for
> > the The Gimp etc, etc. Putting those things together in a tarball and
> > make it ready for burning to CD. After the install of ubuntu you put
> > that DATA CD in the computer and all the collected data is automatically
> > installed in the richt directory's.
> >
> > I think that such a program makes it easier for many people to switch
> > from windows to ubuntu. It is also a big help if you want to re-install
> > you're distro.
> >
> 
> Would you really trust such a program with converting and collecting
> *all* your data automatically? I wouldn't.
> 
> Plus, automatically converting everything to an "open source" format is
> a strange attitude. Probably (and very likely) our new user likes
> Photoshop a lot better than the Gimp (I know I do). So you should allow
> him to keep it!
> 
> -Sebastian
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