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 my

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, business

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 new releases every

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

2007-04-21 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

2007-04-21 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

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-21 Thread shirish agarwal
snipped 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

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