On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:02:24 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > >> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-blends > > > > This link reports 'Invalid Project' > > Sorry - it's > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/blends > Do you think you could do a link in the Documentation section of the Alioth page to the Debian Pure Blends homepage? I had to Google Debian Blends to find anything other than the SVN. (the Alioth page has no links to anything blends in the tabs, or else I missed something terribly obvious). Do you think a lightweight debian desktop for newbies would be a good topic for a blend? Basically, LXDE or XFCE-based with a fairly complete set of packages (so that common packages for most 'average' newbie uses of the computer are present). Not so much options of each type of program because of a desire to keep the installation media size reasonable (For my derived distro that I am working on (mostly for bug fixes, missing .desktop files, and configuration differences from defaults) I am already at a three CD install and that takes about 3-4 GB of hard drive space (I'm install onto 6 with a 3GB drive as a backup drive). I'm going to be working on becoming a DD and getting the bugs fixed in Debian, but it would also be helpful if there were *policy-compliant* means of using a different configuration that would is the default for Debian proper (in fact that's the main blocker for a blend (or blend-equivalent if it's not picked up my Debian) for my project ATM, once the bugs are fixed). There are a number of things that this project could use in terms of new software, but it could manage with Documentation (I'm working on this), bug fixes, and slightly modified configuration. I personally see no reason Debian cannot be made suitable for newbies, with only little more work on some details. Provided of course the newbie is willing to read the documentation that is written to help them (at their level) Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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