Markus Hitter wrote: > > Am 13.12.2007 um 08:41 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: > >> Until CD drives go the way of 5.25" floppy drives, I think we need to >> keep >> install CDs around. Making DVD isos with more stuff available is >> fine, but >> the main part of the distro should fit on a CD. > > What about a "feature" CD? I mean, one live CD with the basics and a few > showcase apps (OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution, etc.) and another one > with more specialized applications. There could even exist different > feature CDs for developers (working gcc, Eclipse, GNUstep, ...), > entertainment (Photo editing, video cutting, ...) and others. >
Doesn't this sort of sound like distribution variants (ie. Ubuntu Studio) or Synaptic->Edit->Mark Packages by Task? At what point would creating several CDs cease to represent a single Ubuntu distribution? Not that I'm opposed to the idea, it just seems like there is some overlap. > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
