Actually, Scibuntu is a much less ambitious undertaking than suggested. It's not a full distro, but only a shell script that downloads and installs relevant packages onto an existing Ubuntu desktop installation (http://scibuntu.sourceforge.net). And there's no reason Slimbuntu couldn't follow the same model. It would take some work to write the script, although imo the harder part would probably be maintaining it as newer versions of packages come out.
One nice aspect of the Scibuntu model is that you don't have to include only one of each type of program. For example, you could include multiple rippers, and let the user choose which to install. I would guess that you probably want to leave the NAS market out of it, because they're already running some pared down version of another distro (non-gui), and you wouldn't use them for ripping and tagging anyway. Likewise, optimizing for running slimserver probably isn't a good match, because if you're ripping, tagging, etc. then it is probably a desktop installation and not a dedicated server. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35885 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
