Eli Billauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The advantages: > 1. Good chances to supply our newbies with a system that works > smoothly and includes the latest patches. > > 2. Possible to spread features that are not currently trivial to > install (Hebrew fonts, for example). > > 3. Israeli projects, such as HSpell and Syscalltrack can be packed > in.
People who come to instaparties to install Linux will hardly need syscalltrack soon. Fonts and hspell are good, of course. > Possible disadvantages: > 1. No personal choice. (But since we always install "everything" on > insta-parties, how much choice do we have?) > > 2. Not the well-known intallation process (read: doesn't look like MS-Win). No clear indication how to update the system, security fixes, bug fixes etc. For that, you need to essentially base your distro on a well-known one - back to fights? Now, doesn't your process consist of essentially the same stages as the regular install: pop a disk in, partition the drive, transfer the packages to the disk in one form or another? What probably would be useful is a post-install script or something that will add locally useful packages and configure a few things. And maybe a CD with a full current set of updates. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
