On 13/10/06, Mark Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanted to suggest that a Ubuntu distro pre-built > with a collection of valuable life science applications would be of value to > academic and industrial researchers. Building a new ubuntu distro is a big step isn't it?
Maybe it would be better to start of small, first of all make sure all the needed packages are in the repositories, for now is going to have to be universe. And then create a package that pulls in all the science apps, similar to ubuntu-desktop package. I don't know much about debian packaging but I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to create a package to pull in a group of apps, its just a dependency isn't it? Convincing Canonical to spend resources on yet another Ubuntu variant (YAUV :D) isn't going to be possible unless we can show that 1. its possible, 2. its wanted and I think that if you start off with a collection of packages in Universe it will be easier to convince Canonical its going to be used if people are using the collection of packages. And of course Canonical can see what people are using, at least they can if you send them the details (using popcon) On a side note, anyone actually have popularity-contest enabled? -- DRM: Digital Restrictions Management -- learn about the dangers at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
