On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 23:20 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I am inclinded to sympathise with Roachy's view. Apart from a very > brief flirtation with Fedora I have nothing to compare Ubuntu with. > However, I feel that the ideal approach for any distro should be to > install the OS and management utilities from the live CD, then leave > the rest to the choice of the user. There is no reason, of course, why > the installation procedure should not present a list of recommended > applications, from which the user can make a selection. It would > enable the distro developers to concentrate on things like reliability > and boot-time performance, rather than trying to squeeze the most > applications possible into a 700MB ISO. This way anybody wanting a > really light system can have one by default, but those users who want > a large portfolio of applications can very easily get it. Surely, > that's precisely the sort of choice that Linux is supposed to be > about. > > Regards > > Nige
Who said Linux was "supposed to be about" choice? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
