> I found current Desktop Distros lacking certain features . I have listed > them below. > 1) Lack of a graphical application installers (aka Installsheild) and a Which distro are you using????? Most of them are having this feature, infact almost all the things from here on sound like a cry from late 90's :p.... So not repeating the same comment i will just let you know a few things that take care of the concerns you have raised ( a little late).
> Add/Remove option in Control Panel (control panel discussed below) > Install Shield X is available but what about a GNU tool. Why install shield? Sucks, rpm and apt gui's are well equipped. Distributions have their own gui's usually, look for package management.... > 2) Dependency Problems again Apt, yum...... > 3) Office Apps (heavy OO) > I havent checked out OO 2.0 beta , but OO is pretty heavy on the system. > A lighter Office suite (need not have all the feature that OO has, 80 to > 90 % of OO features will do). Should be fast Koffice, lots of others. > 4) A light webbrowser and Mail Client (Mozilla was earlier bundled) > Firefox has taken care of this :-). Evolution and thunderbird shine here. Answered > 5) Application in MSWin that allows Access to a linux FS. (A tool is > available for ext2..cant remember name) Well that is useless activity..... but still ext2fs.exe exists, lin can use fat32 partitions neway. > 6) A light window manager (KDE and GNOME are still heavy for a 128 mb > ram system) > XFCE/ IWM rock. Answered > 7) Media Player with capablity to play all/most media files. > Mplayer with plugins is great (Licensing issues have to be taken care of) Answered > 8) No need to edit any config file (Control Panel) > This has been taken care off properly by modern desktop distros but some > distros still have multiple control panels > YAST is great in this regard but extremely slow. No idea i am edit your own configs guy but yest most distros won't need it mandrake is best in this regard, and lots of other regards too.. > 9) Behavior and look and feel a bit like MSWin. > This is what I think is not actually nessesary. Linux WM's can do a lot > more but This is for those Windows USers who like operating windows. > XPDE is good. But could do better. XPDE isn't the answer, Lispire achieves this to a certain degree though.... > > 10) One app for one job. Slackware has good policy but the real benifit of linux is the choice..... i don't think you should kerb that -- BAIN http://abhijit.adotout.net -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
