Re: Some thoughts

This lurker agrees...

Ubunto has as its target audience exactly the same kinds of people as 
Debian-NP.  Goals include ease-of-use and up-to-dateness, and I believe 
that one of the subprojects is a "roll-your-own-distro" machine which is 
very easy to configure.  The Ubuntu project has a solid developer team 
behind it dedicated to making regular time-based releases.  Mark 
Shuttleworth's interest is very much in the NP/educational sectors.  I 
feel sure that Canonical would probably be interested in any proposal to 
merge Debian-NP efforts and Ubuntu in some sense, or at least to work 
closely together.

seb

edgar wrote:
> hello,
> I was thinking about the point of Debian-NP. Now that Sarge has a pretty
> nice and easy installer and there's Ubuntu Linux is there any point of
> building a custom Debian-NP distro? Wouldn't it be better to make some
> kind of advocacy for debian among NGOs, to make a list of useful
> programs that are already in the Debian repository or soon will be?
> But an easy to use Debian-NP server distro is really needed (maybe with
> dischosting installed [http://dischosting.sourceforge.net/]).
> Just some thoughts.
> 
> Greetz.
> Edgar
> 
> 


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