I suppose we are going to distribute Ubuntu
there are two kinds of people
those who classify people into two kinds and those who don't,
just kidding! people who have xDSL Internet connection and those who don't
for the first kind of people we should show them
who to use synaptic
how to use add/remove menu item from applications menu (main menu in Gnome)
how to show extra application, which are not supported directly by
ubuntu, restricted drivers
how to add medibuntu.org repository and their GPG
from GUI or through the following two commands
# sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
Then, add the GPG Key:
# wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo
apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
tell them about the sites like http://help.ubuntu.com/ http://ubuntuforums.org
ubuntuME google group ..etc.
tell them the name and the function of main software
Drivers:
nVidia (glx-new, glx, legendary)
ATI
Themes and Desktop candies:
SphereCrystal and/or nuvola
cursers
gdesklets
do any one know about multimedia hotkeys
GL Desktop:
all compiz related, gnome-compiz-manager or something like that
Wine:
wine and we tell them how to configure it
(what is the new name for winex, I don't suggest it, I suggest wine)
Multimedia:
Gnome baker (DVD/CD RW)
Gnome CD Master (CD RW)
gst plugins: ugly ffmpeg pitfdll (and the codecs) and maybe nonlinear
xine or gxine
mplayer
flash # player
realplayer
Graphics:
Inkscape
Blender
fontforge
Multimedia Advanced Editors:
EasyTAG,
ubuntu-studio
Subtitleeditor,
Avidemux, DeVeDe, DVD::rip, sweep, audacity,..etc.
(mencoder and transcode will be installed by dependency)
...etc.
Games (no GL):
frozenbubbles, super tux, (a must)
solarwolf, heroes, pingus, (good games)
enigma, atomix, (good puzzles)
freecraft (a must for strategy lovers)
abuse (platform jump, shooting ..etc. )
barrage (becomes boring later)
Games (needs GL):
tuxracer (a must, but what's its new name ?)
Armegatron or GlTron (same, I suggest the first)
FooBillard or Billard GL (same idea, I suggest the first)
Gl117 (I don't love this kind of games but some do, it's a)
Crack Attack, Chromium, GNUbik puzzle (not good looking but they are
good time killing)
Trackballs or both [neverball and neverputt] (I suggest the later two)
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# I did not try those below but they seems good, you choose
Alien Arena, Open Arena, Enimylines7,
WarZone 2100 (for strategy lovers)
Torcs or Trigger
3D RPG games: (I consider them all pooring but anyway)
Egoboo
Arkrpg and some of its games
Chess (with GL):
add the 3D support to the already installed glchess (I don't know the
package name)
maybe dream chess but any one use synaptic to search for chess
Dos Emu and Doom:
Dosbox (we tell them how to make it fast)
lxdoom (or any other doom, and we tell them where to put the .WAD)
Qemu: Qemu and its kernel module (only for advanced people)
and we tell them about pcsx (I tried it and it works for me)
and at last
Development basic and basic docs:
missing info pages
gtk2+devel ..etc. (other by dependency)
Development advanced:
anjuta (or whatever, I don't use IDEs)
Servers:
mysql, apache2, hdcp, etherial, ..etc.
and for those who don't have those ADSL Internet like almost every body!
(this is the idea behind shipit because if people in 3rd world have
good Internet they would download linux)
so I suggest we prepare off-line packages for them before the feast,
ready to be taken on their flash Memories or CDs
using this procedure (before the meeting)
preparing those extra files is simple, one install a fresh ubuntu 7.10
PC and leave it (ignore any update)
then open synaptic then check kubuntu-desktop and make sure that
dependencies include Kaffein, amaroK
and add koffice
then after installing them, type
mkdir -p ~/pkgs/kde
sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb ~/pkgs/kde/
sudo chown myname ~/pkgs/kde/*
then move that folder to a flash or something like that then
someone should remove ubunto and reinstall it to get a fresh clean
ubuntu (or let some one do it on another PC)
or even better not to use synaptic but use apt-get --download-only
apt-get --download-only install kubuntu-desktop ...etc.
then MOVE (not copy) the cache to a folder named KDE on the flash
memory, and we still have a fresh clean ubuntu
then from a clean ubuntu we do the following:
for every software section I have mentioned we make a folder and put
all the packages there
(ie. installing then moving or installing them with --download-only
flag then move them)
KDE/
Games/
Wine/
Multimedia-Basic/
Multimedia-Advanced/
..etc/
anyway, this is size efficient because most games have same dependency
(SDL ..etc.)
and most multimedia have common gst.. mplayer, mencoder,..etc.
and in the feast we show people how to install them by typing
sudo dpkg -i [without enter]
then go to "Games" folder and drag and drop the packages to
the command line then press Enter
and in case there were some dependency failure I type
find ./ -iname 'lib*something*'
and I suggest having the new Arabeyes fonts 2.0 ready and having
and having flash plugin tarball as the deb package only work on-line
that's all, so who is going to do this homework
we may divide it on many of us,
we should do it right, ie. on an out-the-box-ubuntu 7.10 PC or PC64
(Note: I don't have Internet, I can't help you,
but I did it before on my Ubuntu 7.04, I downloaded several packages
on a system that have net then get it to my home and I installed
whatever I want from them)
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