DeviceGuru's Open letter to Mark Shuttleworth

[Brian Astill]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:04:38 pm steve wrote:
> Conrad Knauer wrote:
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> |     * Ubuntu GNOME Edition (aka "Ubuntu")
> |     * Ubuntu KDE Edition
> |     * Ubuntu Xfce Edition
> |     * Ubuntu Educational Edition
> |     * Ubuntu Server Edition (as is)
> | Rick
> | DeviceGuru.com

> | I don't have a stong opinion on this
> | But I thought I'd post it here for comment.

Fair enough.  I think the issue Rick raises is valid, though I'm 
not attracted to his solution.  As Steve said:

> heres a better idea.  drop all the "edu", "xu", "ku" like he
> asks, and let the installer decide what they want when they
> install like every other distro.

Well yes, but the Education and Server "editions" do serve quite 
special and particular needs. However, distinguishing solely on 
the basis of which desktop the Ubuntu disk defaults to does seem 
silly.

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Regards,
Brian