Guess what, my mail was intended to go to the Michael only, that is why it was written in German. Sorry for that. My point could be of a broader interest, though, which is that we should all seek ways to attrakt people to our cause and delegate work. Good laugh. How? Well, I have no recipe for that. Maybe there is some money from the benefiting clinical doctors to pay a student? Or some undergraduate seminar/practicals? We should all think about that a bit more.
Cheers, Steffen On Saturday 14 April 2007 22:41:18 Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hallo Michael, > > Ich hatte mir Deine Pakete und Deine Home Page vor ein paar Tagen bereits > einmal angeschaut. Du machst dies alles super. Mir waere nur lieber, wenn > nicht jemand mit Deinen Fachkenntnissen sich darum kuemmern wuerde, Du bist > mir dafuer eigentlich zu schade....aber vermutlich gilt das fuer so einige > von uns. > > Beste Gruesse > > Steffen > > On Friday 13 April 2007 18:55:22 Michael Hanke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm thinking about creating a virtual machine image for VirtualBox to > > promote the use of Debian among neuroimaging scientists. The target > > audience are Windows-users currently using cygwin-based ports of > > available Linux/Unix tools, or even worse win32-only stuff just because > > they have/want to stick to Windows as their OS. > > > > I think VMs are superior to Live-CDs for this task as the VMs can be > > used as a living Debian system that can be further customized. In > > contrast Live-CDs always feel like a snapshot of a certain system that > > one has to live with. > > > > I want to use VirtualBox, because it is freely available and only > > requires little configuration. Besides the usual features of its > > competitors it offers two interesting additions. > > > > 1. It can run 'headless' and provides the video output via an integrated > > RDP server that can be accessed over the network. > > 2. It can mount folders/drives on the host system even without a network > > setup. > > > > I want to use Debian etch as operating system and use as much available > > packages as possible. The desktop choice would probably be XFCE, because > > it require little memory which could be important if the VM host doesn't > > have much RAM installed. > > > > I plan to setup a single user (root only via sudo) for that all relevant > > apps are fully configured to give a nice works-out-of-the-box feeling. > > > > I'd like to keep it as close as possible to a standard Debian system. I > > do not intent to create yet-another-distribution, but a usable example > > installation of Debian etch. > > > > I'd be glad to hear your comments. I'd be especially interested in > > information if a similar project already exists and what I can do to get > > the highest benefit for the Debian project. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
