On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:58:43PM +0530, PRAKHAR gaur wrote: > I do agree that this whole exercise might, turn out to be non-productive, in > terms of a result. But the knowledge I will gain is substantial, so I think > the time spent can be justified.
Sure. That's perfectly fine. I just wanted to make sure you are aware of this. > > If you ask me, purging everything from a Debian machine which is not > > needed and using a very minimalistic window manager brings you quite > > there where you want to be. > I have tried it already, with the help of Debian Live Project. But a problem > I face is I don't have a detailed list of packages that are needed, compared > to the comprehensive list as in LFS. Moreover if you install a "package" eg. > Gnome, many unnecessary things are installed. Not necessarily. You can try apt-get install --no-install-recommends <pkg> or set APT::Install-Recommends in your apt configuration. This will install only packages which are *really* needed. > >DId you ever have shown your colleagues the page which > > lists everything we have[1]? > I am yet to do that. > > Additionally I want to start something regarding Debian at my local level, I > have space to organize any event(100 people max). > I am planning to hold a one day workshop for undergraduate students in my > city, regarding "An Introduction to Linux in Bioinformatics." > > Any more ideas?? I have a certain amount of slides covering this topic available at http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/ perhaps you can "steal" some content to prepare a talk. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100810113825.gb19...@an3as.eu