---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dinesh balaji <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [FSFTN] Idea For Creating a Distro Based on Debain To: [email protected]
Hey Prince, That's a great initiative to build a Distro for promoting free software ! Hats off! a)Regarding the applications: 1. Libreoffice - Free productivity Office suite 2. Thunderbird 3. Banshee 4. Wine ( if there is compulsory necessity to run win apps) 5. VLC 6. GIMP 7. Google Earth (for educational purposes) 8. Filezilla ( a nice FTP) and more.. Please refer this link - https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/AppGuide ( since you are aiming for a distro with Education) b) For themes, please refer this link, neat and handy - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes c) Customizing Debian - Im not sure if you would like to customize the User Interface or OS, if you are talking about effects, i guess compiz is a good start for user interface customizationa and effects. d)github and sourceforge are very nice place to host projects, Git is becoming more popular and widely used these days. Apart from these two, http://www.codeplex.com/ and http://code.google.com/hosting/ are nice place to host open source project. Hope this was helpful to your query, in case if i have overlooked your query, let me know. Thanks, Dinesh _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
