[Lincs] Distro

Chris Adams heelfliper at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 16:33:57 BST 2007


Argh well I have started and you probally wont. I want to get this thing
moving. How can a livecd not be user friendly (its not like you can install
extra software on a live cd and btw gentoo does have X you know !!)? If you
use ubuntu you are putting aload of extra crap no one wants. What make you
think you should be the leader. You smell.

On 29/03/07, iain Baker <iain.dbaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> On 3/29/07, Richard Williams <richard at rkwinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Not sure I understand about a "rebadged Ubuntu" - I thought it was
> possible
> > to download it from the website - have I missed something here?
> >
>
> The original plan for the Lincs LUG Distro was to use a Ubuntu base...
> however as you can see it has moved on to Gentoo now so the 'rebadged
> Ubuntu ' was Dave's offer of restarting the original Distro project
> re-branding Ubuntu to make our Distro more newbie friendly...
>
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of
> > David Rice
> > Sent: 28 March 2007 23:13
> > To: Lincolnshire Linux User Group
> > Subject: Re: [Lincs] Distro
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Sounds interesting and I feel you should take the lead on the
> Distro.  If
> > anyone still feels the need for a re-badged Ubuntu for the less
> experienced
> > then I will try to avail.
> >
> > My time at the min is a bit limited - another Deployment in April with
> no
> > real net access :(
> >
> > But as always happy to help :)
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Chris Adams wrote:
> > Right here is what i plan for the distro:
> > Fluxbox
> > Open Office
> > Gentoo based
> > Fluxbox LLUG themes
> > LLUG boot splash
> > Quake4 (without license key)
> > Mozilla-Firefox
> > Xmms
> > Mplayer
> > and a script to auto config your grachics card drivers
> > rox file manager
> > eterms
> > custom bashrc file advertising llug ??
> > Tell me what you want ...
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