*buntu Live DVD

[Karl Goetz]

Harijs Buss wrote:
> On Sunday, 21. May 2006 08:43, Brayn rakstija:
>> thats a really good idea :), i've seen live dvd's with different distros on
>> it, i bet someone could probly do it.
> 
> But in fact these are not different distros. You can, for example, add KDE 
> parts to ordinary Ubuntu and get combined Ubuntu/Kubuntu with both Gnome and 
> KDE.  Probably the same thing with Edubuntu. I would bet dollar against cent 
> that it is possible to form DVD (maybe several DVD's) containing, so to say, 
> universal Ubuntu with all available varieties inside as single distribution, 
> allowing choices at installation time. Yeah, it might be necessary to 
> distribute such thing on a harddisk instead of bunch of DVD's... :-)

Breezy is 12 gig~. so with suitable splitting it could be on 4 or 5 4gig
dvds (including updates), or 2 9 gig dvds.
Its worth having dvds as ways to move lots of packages, but not a hard
disc :o (unless you carry all ubuntus, as i do :P)
> 
> The big question is, however, who will need it?  People who use KDE rarely (if 
> ever) switch to Gnome, probably also vice versa, etc. If somebody needs them 
> both he can easily install e.g. KDE in addition to ordinary Ubuntu. To show 
> Linux to Windows users, I would say simply use Kubuntu. 
why? dont say because it looks the same :/ rubs me the wrong way every
time :)
kk

> 
> Harijs
> 


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