__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:29 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 06:12 \__
>>
>>> George Ellison (undercover) wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> > Ebuntu
>>>> >
>>>> > Enlightenment Ubuntu Project
>>>> >
>>>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> > | Currently there is no project release yet.
>>>> > | But you can use the ELive CD.
>>>> > `----
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.ebuntu.org/
>>>> >
>>>> > So there's GNOME (Ubuntu, Edubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), Fluxbox (nUbuntu,
>>>> > Fluxbuntu), XFCE (Xubuntu), and now Enlightenment (Ebuntu). I'm sure
>>>> > there are more Ubuntu forks (any FVWM-based Ubuntu?), including
>>>> > mainstream distributions like Mepis, which use Ubuntu as the 'root'.
>>>>
>>>> Why not just go with a DVD and call it "Pick-your-own-buntu"? (or, for
>>>> short, "Debian")
>>>
>>> Yup. For real. There are a ton of those little window managers. We
>>> don't need a distro for each one of them.
>>
>> That's exactly what I thought. SUSE sports a lot of desktop environment,
>> with Opensuse themes and custom graphics for each. And it ships as 5 CD's
>> or a DVD.
>
> Well, Debian also has all of these options as standard anyway, but I
> think the temptation for the ubuntu CD makers is a nice reasonably
> stable snapshot a bit quicker than the somewhat lumbering debian project
> team could do it in.
>
> I'm a huge fan of debian, and use it almost exclusively, but I think
> these CDs are hitting a spot which Debian wasn't really addressing all
> that effectively.
You mean /free/ CD's? Someone is definitely hitting a spot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpoWKpAL9Q
*gasp*
They should have known better. Sending the CD's to Gary Stewart was along a
bad idea.
Best wishes,
Roy
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