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About the size: if anyone can download 400M then he can download 700M :) what I want to say , I hope you install all the good programa and don't care about the size (is long as it fit on one CD) On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:51:31 -0700 Anmar Oueja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings Earthlings: > >Well after downloading a few gigs of ISO's from GNOPPIX, KNOPPIX, > and >MORPHIX I decided to base all future developement work on MORPHIX >> >(morphix.sf.net). > >Before I explain why I chose MORPHIX, here is my criteria I used >to >evaluate each of the CDs: > >1. Must support GNOME since we have full Arabic localisation (thanks >> >GNOME team). KDE Arabisation is not complete yet. (that takes KNOPPIX >> >out of the picture) > >2. Make the size as small as possible. Although we are going to >> >distribute these CDs (If we find a sponsor), people want to download >it >so we should be concious of that. > >3. Easy to localize (based on a well built distribution) Debian >> >preferrably ;) > >4. Easy to install on hard disk. (some people might like what they >see >and decide to use linux as a full time OS) > >5. Easy to further improve and extend > >6. Easy to customize with Arabeyes.org logos and colours. > >7. Must fit on one CD > >8. Must have an active community of developers for future enhancements >> >and support > >Here are the reasons why i have decided to use MORPHIX: > >1. It is modular so we can bunch our entire Arabization effort in >one >module instead of mucking with the whole distribution. > >2. relatively smallish . Knoppix is close to 700 MB . MORPHIX is >440 MB > >3. Although localization docs are not present, the mailing lists >are >plenty helpful and the people are quite nice. All of the Live-CD's >i >have examined are based on Debian (whooo :)) > >4. MORPHIX comes with a GTK2 tool that installs the entire CD on >the >hard disk of choice (non of the examined Live-CDs have that). The >tool >can be easily localized to Arabic so users can install the entire >OS on >their Hard disk and use a fully localized linux-based OS > >5. The community is active and willing. That says alot about the >future >of this live-CD :) > >Other than the mentioned points above, all Live-CDs are equal. > >Let me know what you think. > >Anmar > >_______________________________________________ >Doc mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > > - -------------------- - -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj9g5cgACgkQIIFs5Sdd9ZgXqQCdFbWuq59jKE+/TQNyQLK2lKsTzp8A nA3k/AGWQ3/5ck0cM1YSH5ep/eeB =5RJe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
