Re: Hello

[Daniel Tygel <dtygel@nowtech.com.br>]

Hi Giovanni and others in this Debian NP list,

  my name is Daniel, from Brasil, somehow in the same situation as Gio: looking for some linux distro well suited for desktop's use in old computers.

  Until now, the best distros I found with the caracteristics pointed out by Gio were the following:
    - Vector Linux (actually in version 4);
    - RULE project.

  Let me tell you about RULE project: it's a really great idea! It's a project aiming at working on existing distros, trying to build an installer which will install a basic package of that distro. Until now they have been working with RedHat. They developed an installer, called "slinky installer", which can install RedHat in as low as 12MB RAM computer!!

  I think that other developers could join the efforts of RULE to develop installers for other distros, like Debian or Debian NP. A question to this list: is the Debian NP project somehow stopped?

  Vector linux is another great distro for old computers: it boots really fast, is easy to install, and has good tools for downloading and installing some programs.

  Well, let me point you to both web pages:

** Vector linux:
http://www.vectorlinux.com

** RULE projet: 
http://www.rule-project.org

  All the best,
      Daniel Tygel

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:11:33 -0500
Giovanni Sce <giova@digitalright.org> wrote:

> Hello Debian NP, I'm new to the list and I look forward
> to contribute to the project if I can.
> 
> For different reasons I founded this nonprofit that aims
> at narrowing the global digital gap through Free Software.
> 
> I'm a software developer and I have worked years ago on Unix
> C and C++ systems, now mostly java and of course I "using"
> Linux/GNU. I said "using" because until 2 years ago I thought
> there was Linux, in this past year since I started this
> project I discovered about 30 or more distros...! :-)
> So... I discovered my ignorance and I'm working my way into
> Linux distros and Free Software in general.
> 
> To make it short, I'm very much oriented towards Debian and
> then I would like to find some caracteristic in my preferred
> platform such as (but not limited):
> - Run on older hardware
> - Easy hardware detection
> * Easy to install and keep updated
> - Supported (meaning I can find someone to fix it in Nicaragua)
> * Minimal/simple
> * Easy to configure
> 
> Items * should allow to decide and maybe change later on the
> configuration. In most case on an older PC I'd like a very minimal
> version, probably need icewm, don't care for sound or movie
> editing tools (as well as probably no db, mail, web servers).
> In most cases my "clients" don't even know how to fully use
> OpenOffice! In many cases I would like to give to the basic
> user only a very limited menu (the more items they have the
> more they get confused).
> 
> Well, I hope I can contribute to the project with ideas,
> requirements and actually doing some activity, I thought
> maybe before editing wiki pages is it a good idea to post
> "material" on this list.
> 
> Ciao for now,
> 
> Gio
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