On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Alessio Elmi wrote: > my idea is there's no point to choose a distro just becasue > of softwares it comes with. I mean, it takes very few > seconds type something like "apt-get install..." "yum > install ..." "pacman -S ...." and so on.. Don't take me bad, > if you can find a distro which comes with every and only > things you like is perfect, but during my short experience I > start loving distro without things and light instead. You > save bytes, loading time etc.
In a way, you have just said that there IS a point to choose a distro for the software it "comes with". If you can install it with apt-get or yum, the distro does in effect "come with" it. If not, maybe you can add another repository (tryphon or deb-multimedia) which is almost as good. If not, you can build from source, which a lot of people would rather avoid. Although I would not choose it myself, I agree with Alan Peterson that there is great value to many to provide special distros that are really variants of other distros pre-configured for certain needs. The very popular "Ubuntu" really is such a distro. It's built on Debian for mainstream users who want a nice desktop. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
