On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:40 +0530, Parthan SR wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Vivek wrote: > > > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India. Wasn't > > > difficult to answer :P. > Sorry, still I do not get it?
different wallpaper, different theme, sounds & possibly diff icon. Different default services, different default set of installed packages.Indian calendar + list of holidays. Claws as default client rather than hte evolution monster... and many others. > > > IMHO, the existing ubuntu distribution isn't a very good option for > > > people with poor net connection or old PCs. Even without any thing nifty > > > running, ubuntu takes about 200mb of RAM on my system. At my home, I > > > still use an old system with 256mb RAM. I believe similar would be the > > > case with many households. With such mem usage, system would just crawl. > > > It's just a thought, but I believe that it's very important to make > > > ubuntu a bit leaner. > Xubuntu? Have u tried XUBUNTU ? It's touted to be lightweight alternative to ubuntu but my personal experience has been very different. Most of the time it relies on Gnome packages. Other than a different window manager , and thunar there's not much different between them. It's based on GTK2 and relies on many gnome packages. It definitely uses "less" resources but isn't that light. Fluxbox: There's already a fluxubuntu distribution. I'm not talking just abt different window manager but a better and friendlier linux distro based on ubuntu. > Yes, you can use Ubuntu to create your own custom distros, may > be using WMs like fluxbox which are comparatively lighter to a GNOME or > KDE based Ubuntu. But, at the end of the day the question is who is > going to maintain the packages for them? > IMHO, we can try contributing > to existing packages and packaging them for the latest upstream version > than doing something like this. > > > Yes, I was referring to development of new as well as improvement of > > > existing features. there's still a lot of scope for improvement in > > > ubuntu. > Yes sure, If you have any new idea of a cool app propose it, there will > be some one in this list who wants to join and make it. We had some > projects started in our team, but as we have become more and more > occupied with our job we are not able to be active. Would you like to do > something? Please propose, we were here to help you :) > > > Apparently, I'm wrong - the group focuses more on promotion rather than > > > development. > > > AFAIK, we have never done any promotion till now. I am eager to know > what made you conclude on that? > Disclaimer: The Ubuntu India Loco team has nothing to do with the "Ubunt > India Promoters" group in Launch Pad, as of now. Thanks for that clarification. Cheers, Vivek > > - -- > With Regards, > Parthan aka Technofreak > > [GPG] :0x2FF01026 > [web] :http://technofreak.in > [blog] :blog.technofreak.in > [photos]:photos.technofreak.in > [irc] :teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) > [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHlG+ok4vYYS/wECYRAi8/AJ4jHQvluTcR7oraC40V887NZuu/PwCeO+mU > EzB+knP+K8CAFmwYyTw8Fug= > =Axaa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
