[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Shawn Walker]

On 15/06/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Glynn Foster wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Having started to look in to see what might be an initial package
> >> list to seed a
> >> single CD, I figured it would be good to look over the water at Ubuntu.
> >
> > I agree, that's a good strategy and good start. In order to provide a
> > really useful benchmark/baseline though, how about we take multiple
> > popular
> > single CD distros. That way we can compare/contrast (e.g. find
> > intersections of) their package choices.
> >
> > Moinak -- would it be easy to do generate a package list for Belenix?
>
>    It is there on the website:
>    http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=packages
>
> >
> > Also, e.g. how about Simply Mepis? If I get a chance, I'll do
> > that one over the weekend so we can add it to the mix.
>
>    I'd add Sabayon Linux to the mix. It is getting enormous traction
>    recently and is being touted as the most usable Linux distro, more
>    so than Ubuntu. They have paid attention to the small things that
>    impact usability a lot, for eg. mime-types are properly configured
>    for every application so you will get the same results in Konqueror
>    and Firefox.

Likewise I hear great things about PC-BSD.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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