Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

Tim Hull thully at umich.edu
Mon Oct 11 17:29:28 UTC 2004


I don't want the distribution to be over 1 CD (I like the one CD 
distribution too), but I just had a couple suggestions for what seemed 
like easy additions to the CD, as the ISO is currently is over 100MB 
less that a full CD.  I didn't realize the kernel headers and kernel 
images took up so much space - however, it still would work to include 
the 686 kernel headers/source (which probably would be the most used) on 
the main CD.  Also, I thought it would be nice just to have a very basic 
KDE/Qt installation (mostly for apps depending on it).  In addition to 
these, having winmodem drivers would be a great help as people wouldn't 
have to find some alternate way to download them (by rebooting into 
Windows, or finding another type of networking that may or may not be 
convenient.  Something like captive-ntfs would also fit into this "new 
user convenience" department.

To include these would take up something like:
kernel-image 48MB (for 686)
kernel-headers 17MB (for 686)
kde-core 22.8MB
winmodem drivers total 10-20MB
captive ntfs (would have to be added to ubuntu - not currently in debian 
- 15MB
This probably would fit on 1 CD.




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