Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:27:52PM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: > No, this not an abstract thing. And no, there are not "many free operating > systems based on Ubuntu" (SIC! > because Ubuntu is basing on an operating system) : There is only one at this > moment: Linux (or better GNU/Linux). > With m

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread William Tracy
What you are describing is not an Ubuntu derivative at all. You are describing creating your own "user friendly" derivatives of different OSes. That's great, but it's not Ubuntu. -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Evil Bash script for today: while true; do fortune | write (

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread Micah Cowan
Gueven Bay wrote: > > Hello again , > >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: So what is it that you are proposing specifically? >>> What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with >>> the "philosophy" of Ubuntu: >>> ease of use, shiny ne

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread Gueven Bay
Hello again , > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: > > > So what is it that you are proposing specifically? > > What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with > > the "philosophy" of Ubuntu: > > ease of use, shiny new releases every eye bl

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Gueven Bay wrote: > > So what is it that you are proposing specifically? > What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with > the "philosophy" of Ubuntu: > ease of use, shiny new releases every eye blink , cool community, "busine

Re: Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution (Last question)

2007-04-21 Thread Gueven Bay
Only this last question to the Ubuntu Project Members is open for me: If I write an "Seed Plan" in which I specify what Ubuntu/{FreeSD,NetBSD,OpenSolaris} will include, if I write an "implementation plan" in which I specify how to make a Release, if I write a "test plan" in which I specify how t

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-21 Thread shirish agarwal
What I want is to combine the worlds of several free operating systems with the "philosophy" of Ubuntu: ease of use, shiny new releases every eye blink , cool community, "business awareness" but - with the combination of several operating systems under Ubuntu - the _full_ choice the free softw

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-21 Thread Alex Jones
Hi One thing to consider here is that the FOSS scene gets enough stick about fragmentation with the sheer number of distributions we already have. 4 official variations of Ubuntu is enough for me. You have to remember why Ubuntu works as well as it does in the first place - because canonical took

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread Gueven Bay
> > Your description roughly matches the way that Ubuntu is already structured. Yes, it matches the way Ubuntu is structured. But - as you know - Ubuntu is GNU/Linux today. The first new proposal of me was to get other free operating systems under Ubuntu's project. > That is, I don't see any

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:47:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello dear Ubuntu community, > > Here I want to propose the development of > > > Ubuntu Metadistribution Your description roughly matches the way that Ubuntu is already structured. That is, I don't see any work to be done on

Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-20 Thread guevenbay
Hello dear Ubuntu community, Here I want to propose the development of Ubuntu Metadistribution Motivation There is not only Linux as a free operating system. There are other free operating systems which have their own strength and advantages. The Ubuntu Metadistribution would combine the ad