Re: Helix Gnome for Debian/PPC available
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 10:16:04AM +0200, hadess@writeme.com wrote:
> Quoting Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk>:
>
> > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:42:26 +0200, hadess wrote:
> >
> > > I'm working on a Debian-based distro for iMacs and iBooks
> >
> > Why not use ("plain") Debian?
>
> Not appealling enough to the new user... _I_ can cope with Debian, but I don't
> think a new user to Linux would fancy it much.
> We would replace the installer for a gui one (gtk-1.3 has framebuffer support,
> so it's less overhead than X-based installer), go for Gnome as the default
> desktop (Helix Gnome is just a nice way to get everything from one place, and
> more current than the Potato packages), add some programs that Debian wouldn't
> allow (Xanim with the modules, or lame, for example), and add some configuration
> tools.
>
> Every single improvement would be sent to the upstream maintainer or the Debian
> developer of the package. That's not interesting for me to do everything on my
> own as it would only be harder for me to update all the packages, and the Debian
> developers are doing a wonderful job.
>
> Of course, more comments are welcome
Why don't join the boot-floppies team and help improve the debian installer ?
or write some debian configuration tools ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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