[plug] New CA distro?

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:02 +0800, garry wrote:

> As an ordinary member of CA, here is my understanding..
> 
> CA is involved in using computers which are far from cutting edge..

ie GNOME is not an option, full stop. We need to stick to one GUI
toolkit, etc etc.

> The distro must therefore only contain a task oriented selection [hdd 
> space] of small effective applications [RAM shortage] in a lean window 
> manager.. As CA's major mission is computer literacy, a given set of 
> software makes training much easier..
> 
> It also has to be very stable to use, and have a wide selection of 
> device drivers available.. It has to "just work", the clients don't need 
> to tweek anything..

Yep. There's also the small matter that Ubuntu wasn't around (or we
didn't know about it) when we started work on it ;-)

It should be noted that they system is disk image based, so in many ways
we're more creating a custom install rather than a distro.

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Craig Ringer