On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 17:39 +0530, Kingsly John wrote: > +++ Vivek [2008-01-21 05:54:38]: > > > 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. > > XFCE doesn't *depend* on any Gnome Packages, now if you need a particular > gnome package.. obviously those will depend on Gnome packages. xubuntu is more than just XFCE. Ever used xubuntu wihtout gnome-vfs ? firewall in XFCE (there's firestarter but again it has *gnome* deps)?? > > Creating a distro isn't a trivial task.. involves a LOT of overhead in > packaging/testing/QA etc... just look at the different levels of "polish" in > the various *buntu distributions itself.
That simply means you're not interested. Linux mint began as an ubuntu fork. > > > 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. > > Why don't you list what you think is broken with Ubuntu and work with the > "official" developers to get things fixed? Did I mention anything broken ? > > Why does it have to be India specific? Why shouldn't the rest of the world > benefit from your ideas? Why can't be India specific ? Even if it is (will be) designed to be India specific, it's still open source - anyone can have it. > > Don't let imaginary lines in the sand limit your ideas. What was that for ??? > > The reason the localisation effort seems to be highlighted is because someone > from China or Brazil isn't qualified to be doing "Indian" language > translations. another reason "could" be that nobody's doing any development work. > > There are Indians contributing to Ubuntu under various roles.. I don't doubt that > but they > don't need to do it under Ubuntu-IN, why ? are they prevented from doing so ? most likely they share they vision/ideas and hence want to join the effort. > because it's more efficient to directly > work with the main developers than to work independently of them. That's untrue. A team has to share the goals in order to work efficiently. If you don't agree with the mainstream developers then it's better to branch. > > Kingsly > Are u always so cynical ? :D Cheers, Vivek > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kingsly At Users Dot SourceForge Dot Net -- http://kingsly.org/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
