[glug-t] Re: Pengufest: What shall we put into the distro(s)?

On 12/11/06, Aditya M <aditya87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> This thread shall deal with what content to add into the distro. Let
> us not concentrate on the distro but the applications, desktops, etc.
>
> Please reply directly to mails from this thread, so that the subject
> line is automatically set correctly.
>
> Here is what I think should be in the base.
> GNOME and KDE desktops. It should not be a problem if we are using a
> DVD to distribute. But I think we may need a CD version; in that case
> we can chuck KDE being less popular one.
>
> Please keep in mind that the initial target audience consists of:
> College students! (UG, PG and beyond)
>
> Applications
> -------------------
>
> Development:
> Compilers: Everthing.
> IDE: One per important language (c/c++, java, python, .net, perl
> should do i guess)

>> ruby ? its coming out as a hot language
     and inclusion of netbeans and SUN java instead of  GIJ now that SUN has
released java under   GPL V2

> Editors: All the stars (emacs, vim, gedit), maybe even kedit, pico, nano,
> etc.
> and also i think we should carry heavy documentation ,ubuntu DVD carries
> with it byteofpython book,devhelp and many others .We should be shipping
> some common free developer help books .
> Office Document Stuff: Open Office (optionally the low weight ones too
> like abiword)
> yeah abiword is very good and it should be included
> Multimedia:
> Support for open codecs only. C'mon, then we can make our distro official!
> >> yes but i think we should be able to give the user a distro which he
> can use for all hsi purposes and listening to songs comes on top :) . so may
> be a additional cd or a repo in lan and once the normal installation
> finishes we can jus do a yum or apt-get to install all codecs and mplayers.
> Games: Lots of good Linux based ones (tuxracer, solarwolf, frozen bubbles,
> etc)
>   >> yes games definitely a package and we should look for a lot more
> games. I know a couple of chess server which will enable people to host a
> chess servers ,a group of players competing over a lan .




Engineering and Scientific Software: Looking at the repos, there is a
> lot unexplored (and possibly buggy) software lies there. I think we
> should try to include a lot this.
>
> Web: Browsers, and .... Web servers, FTP servers/clients, etc.
>
> Typesetting software: Tex system, latex and some associated editors too.
> LYX (frontend to latex) and texmacs which comes with suse is really good
> ,this way i think we can make latex really popular among newbies.
>
> Starting firing now, the ball is now in your court.
> and finally how about a repo :) from our college server ! i mean online
> repo
>
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