On do, 2007-02-15 at 18:04 +0100, Christophe Vandeplas wrote: > Jan Claeys wrote: > > On do, 2007-02-15 at 05:29 +0100, Snulkid wrote: > >> But maybe you could launch among them the idea of a "Belgian > >> personalized CD" ? > > > > That might be a good idea; maybe we can even press our own CDs then, if > > we can find some sponsors. > > I think this is *not* a good idea. > > Let me explain why. > First of all a personalised edition requires quite some testing and > changes. Thus taking huge amounts of time. Time you'll spend on it on > every new release of ubuntu. This will also create more segmentation, > more distro's in this wild forest of different distro's. You also have > the need to distribute on CD, online,... what can cost quite some money > and time.
The Ubuntu "desktop" CD can be customized very easily, by adding & removing packages from the image it contains before assembling it. Several LoCoTeams are already making their own localised images... > What I think can be a good idea is to work with the locoteams to > personalise the ubuntu install to take count of the country you are in. It already does that, as far as possible (unfortunately, one CD can't hold all translations etc.). > Or to make an application that will list all the 'country-related' stuff. You mean something like a "Belgium" category in 'gnome-app-install'? > By these means it will take less time of testing, distributing, > refactoring,... and will prevent segmentations of the official ubuntu-cd Some people would have to do the work and do some testing, but everything /should/ work if installing those "Belgian" packages manually works already now. Which means that making this disk could also improve Ubuntu proper for use by Belgians, by finding/solving bugs. > I'm also pro a system where the user can check a box during the install > to say he wants to download the proprietary-codecs-etc from the net. This would mean changing the installer, and would be more work. (But maybe the "Mint" people have done this work already?) Anyway, it's just a proposal... -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
