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____/ JeffM on Sunday 03 Jan 2010 22:56 : \____
>>>JeffM wrote:
>>>Mint[...]has boot-to-a-desktop CDs (eat it, M$)
>>>for a *EACH* of a range of DEs (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Fluxbox).
>>>
>>>Mint[...]LXDE [not ready]
>>>[...]
>>>an Ubuntu-based LXDE distro is in advanced beta.
>>>[...]WattOS.Microwatt
>>>[...]
>>>Lubuntu [not ready]
>>>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>Why not just install LXDE on vanilla Ubuntu?
>>
> My point was all about advocacy and boot-to-a-desktop CDs
> which allow folks to test drive various distro/DE combos
> and see for themselves how those look/handle
> **without installing anything**.
Especially important in rural areas in Africa where even installing the GIMP
can be a handful. Broadband speeds are /still/ an issue to many (which is
why one download of a distro may mean a lot of /installations/).
> My "eat it, M$" chide
> was about Redmond's inability to do anything approaching this.
>
> I've never farted around with e.g. BartPE
> but my understanding is that (because of the Windoze Registry)
> it has to be built for a specific box
> and won't work when booted on a different box.
BarfPEE [sic] is another case of catchup. Then there's the USB installer
for Vista 7 [sic], which was GPL software that Microsoft used illegally.
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