Obviously you people still dont understand. If we use gentoo the system base will take up less room, leving more room for your programs you want. I am not compiling it for custom cpu code: I am not that stupid. And no it wont take 3 days to compile. It will be user friendly. The users dont have to even touch the console. And anyway you cant do much on a livecd anyway that isnt user friendly. You cant install extra packages or anything. I think you are just voting for your favorite distro.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 30/03/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alistair Crust</b> <<a href="mailto:alistair@skegnessgrammar.org">alistair@skegnessgrammar.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:19 +0100, Phillip Taylor wrote:<br>> Agreed.<br>><br>> I'm not sure that a new distro is even beneficial for a newbie anyway<br>> since they kind of lose support from other sources (the default
<br>> configuration would be different). If a newbie came to me I'd probably<br>> recommend Ubuntu since it's extremely active at the moment with lots<br>> of documentation being written and a wealth of other newbies in the
<br>> same position.<br><br>I would tend to strongly agree. Unless you have a specific need that can<br>"not" be catered for by another distro, then it feels like you would be<br>putting a lot of good effort into re-inventing the wheel. Taking a
<br>distro that has already got a reputation for being good with the target<br>audience and improving it seams a far better idea that creating a whole<br>new one.<br><br>As an example some of the guys from the UKLug are just starting "Obuntu"
<br>based on ubuntu but specifically concentrating on easy task based server<br>installs and the like. Its not fighting against Ubuntu or any other<br>distro, Its just taking a good distro and concentrating all their<br>excellent efforts and ideas and making it better.
<br><br>> Can we confirm who the target audience for this distribution is?<br>> Newbies or is it for those who have experience and support the Lincoln<br>> LUG?<br>><br>> I feel that Lincoln LUG wallpaper and themes are great and kind of
<br>> give you that sense of community without making you dependent on the<br>> LLUG as your own means of support although I have absolutely no<br>> objections about your effort or ideals towards the project and I would
<br>> happily try and support any people that contact the LLUG for help.<br>><br><br>As would I, and a LincsLUG theme would touch a far greater audience and<br>would integrate into many many distros. So people could take their pick
<br>of distro.<br><br>> Phill<br>><br>> ps. Sorry for the offensive remark the other day.<br>><br>> On 30/03/07, MD <<a href="mailto:barodato@gmail.com">barodato@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > On 3/30/07, Phillip Taylor <
<a href="mailto:Phillip.Taylor@bcs.org.uk">Phillip.Taylor@bcs.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> > > If you make a distro based on Gentoo with precompiled binaries etc<br>> > > then aren't you taking away that flexability? And since you don't know
<br>> > > how users will use this distribution do you limit them to a tiny set<br>> > > of packages (to save space) or do you concede that "less room" isn't<br>> > > really that important if you do want to give people flexability?
<br>> > ><br>> > > The power of Gentoo is compiling your own machine specific code. If<br>> > > you make a distribution CD for someone else they lose that benefit.<br>> > ><br>> > > I can't help but think that perhaps your justification for the choice
<br>> > > isn't that well thought out. Have I missed something?<br>> ><br>> > I can't help thinking that people are just favouring their favourite<br>> > distros for this project. Surely what we want to aim for is the best
<br>> > distro for someone switching away from Windows? In my experience,<br>> > Gentoo isn't exactly the most user-friendly of linuces to install,<br>> > although I must admit that I gave up after 3 days of straight
<br>> > compilation. :) (Don't bother telling me, I know you can install with<br>> > binaries.)<br>> ><br>> > When you think about, you've just got to ask yourself to whom will<br>> > this distro be aimed? The answer IMHO is the linux newbie.
<br>> ><br>> > Apologies if this has been discussed before. :)<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Thanks,<br>> > -MattD <barodato at gmail dot com><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________
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