Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

[Ben Edwards]

Due to the fact this is a desktop distribution development
tools/sources are not included.  If the kernel sources were included
(which are rather large, especially for all flavors) development tools
such as gcc would also be needed and this would really start to take
up a lot of room.  If you want kernel sources or development tools it
is generally thought you are fairly experienced and would not have too
much problem downloading them.

Ben


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:29:28 -0400, Tim Hull <thully at umich.edu> wrote:
> 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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