On 2020-04-03 3:40 p.m., Phill Carter wrote:
On 4 Apr 2020, at 9:36 am, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/3/20 3:59 PM, Phill Carter wrote:
On 4 Apr 2020, at 6:58 am, Sebastian Kuzminsky
<[email protected]> wrote:
I would *love* to standardize on Debian and not support all the
off-shoots like Ubuntu and Mint, etc.
I may be talking through my hat here but I seem to recall a licencing
issue with distributing Debian based ISO's so we sought and received
permission from the Mint team to distribute Mint based ISO's
I don't think that's right. We switched away from Ubuntu-based ISOs back
around the time of 12.04 because of legal issues around deriving from their
distribution, maybe that's what you're thinking of?
I am easily confused…
Debian, on the other hand, is an exemplary member of the open source community and
encourages derivation: https://www.debian.org/derivatives/
<https://www.debian.org/derivatives/>
I'll put my hat away. Go Debian, it is the only distro I use.
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The License issue wa wsith Ubuntu - It was not clear how to remove all
'Ubuntu' brancding - which apparently they would request. (i don;t think
anyone actually asked them directly)
I contacted Mint developers and asked about Mint Linuxcnc respin and we
received a positive answer.
I'll find the posting if anyone is interested.
One thing to keep in mind is that we distribution really has alot to do
with how easy it is for new users to use it. Debian is not the most user
friendly (it's not terrible of course). We as developer/power users are
not the best to assess that. It's easy to say - 'just change the window
manager to what ever you want'
but that is not so easy if you have never used linux.
Mint is quite first time user friendly and there are lots of places on
the web to read up on it.
If we stick with debian only, maybe we could put some thought on adding
a friendlier set up as default.
personally if we could squeeze a Mint preempt in the mix - I think that
would be better.
Chris
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