Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Jan 21, 2008 11:00 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 4:51 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frankly I wasn't expecting so much resistance. Why is everyone so much > > opposed to the idea of a new ubuntu flavor ? If Ubuntu muslim edition, > > christian edition

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Parthan SR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vivek wrote: > Frankly I wasn't expecting so much resistance. Why is everyone so much > opposed to the idea of a new ubuntu flavor ? If Ubuntu muslim edition, > christian edition, satan , ultimate, fluxubuntu can co-exist then what's > the problem in a

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 21, 2008 4:51 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly I wasn't expecting so much resistance. Why is everyone so much > opposed to the idea of a new ubuntu flavor ? If Ubuntu muslim edition, > christian edition, satan , ultimate, fluxubuntu can co-exist then what's > the problem in a n

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek
Frankly I wasn't expecting so much resistance. Why is everyone so much opposed to the idea of a new ubuntu flavor ? If Ubuntu muslim edition, christian edition, satan , ultimate, fluxubuntu can co-exist then what's the problem in a new Indian edition ? Ubuntu is not the only linux distribution. T

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Roshan
On Monday 21 January 2008 10:56, Vivek wrote: [some-info] I'm not a active contributor, I express my simple thoughts below. > Is there no interest in development of new > features ? new functionality (or more usable/discoverable) not found > in other ubuntu distributions ? I assume, if developm

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Lut4rp
> different wallpaper, different theme, sounds & possibly diff icon. > Different default services, different default set of installed > packages.Indian calendar + list of holidays. Claws as default client > rather than hte evolution monster... and many others. Have you seen this project page? htt

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 21, 2008 2:35 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 21, 2008 7:54 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 21, 2008 2:13 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I have put up couple of my ideas on the project pag

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Jan 21, 2008 7:54 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 2:13 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have put up couple of my ideas on the project page: > > > > http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Projects#Projects > > > > Have a look... any comments welco

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 21, 2008 2:13 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have put up couple of my ideas on the project page: > > http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Projects#Projects > > Have a look... any comments welcome.. Going by the requirement put up on the wiki, I think you should contact ind

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Jan 21, 2008 6:56 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 1:06 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Why does it have to be India specific? Why shouldn't the rest of the > world > > > benefit from your ideas? > > > > Why can't be India specific ? Even if it is

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 21, 2008 1:06 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why does it have to be India specific? Why shouldn't the rest of the world > > benefit from your ideas? > > Why can't be India specific ? Even if it is (will be) designed to be > India specific, it's still open source - anyone can ha

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 17:39 +0530, Kingsly John wrote: > +++ Vivek [2008-01-21 05:54:38]: > > > Have u tried XUBUNTU ? It's touted to be lightweight alternative to > > ubuntu but my personal experience has been very different. Most of the > > time it relies on Gnome packages. Other than a differ

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Kingsly John
+++ Vivek [2008-01-21 05:54:38]: > Have u tried XUBUNTU ? It's touted to be lightweight alternative to > ubuntu but my personal experience has been very different. Most of the > time it relies on Gnome packages. Other than a different window > manager , and thunar there's not much different betwee

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Jan 21, 2008 4:24 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:40 +0530, Parthan SR wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Vivek wrote: > > > > > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India. > Wasn't > > > > difficult to a

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:40 +0530, Parthan SR wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vivek wrote: > > > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India. Wasn't > > > difficult to answer :P. > Sorry, still I do not get it? different wallpaper, different the

Re: [ubuntu-in] Setting up local apt-get repository ? Error

2008-01-21 Thread Jasbir Khehra
On 1/18/08, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Ok my sources.list points to > deb file:media/disk/ubuntu/dvd710_1/ubuntu gutsy main > multiverse universe > > and the files Packages.gz > > /media/disk-1/ubuntu/dvd710_1/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > /media/disk-1/ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Parthan SR
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vivek wrote: > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India. Wasn't > > difficult to answer :P. Sorry, still I do not get it? > > IMHO, the existing ubuntu distribution isn't a very good option for > > people with poor net connectio

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek
FREE as in FOSS ?? that's not a very bright idea. Other than forced idealogical conflict, there' no benefit of FOSS. can't imagine using my system without any multimedia support. Vivek On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:28 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > > > On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Vivek <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

2008-01-21 Thread Vivek
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:05 +0530, Parthan SR wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vivek wrote: > > Namaskar to all members, > > > > I've just joined the mailing list in hope of being able to offer some > > help in the development of the Indian Edition of Ubuntu. > Welcom