Re: [FarsiLinux] New member & suggestions

[Arash Bijanzadeh]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:32, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:06, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:49, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > We want to simplize the use of farsi in linux. We  may an
> > > installable distro and packages.
> > > Right now we are trying to find a base for our distro. Surely all
> > > of us like it to be debianbase but there is two major problem.
> > > First is the installer and hd-detection proccedure which are not
> > > user friendly in debian. The other problem is conservative POV of
> > > debian guys in contrust with the newly added features that we want
> > > them all for farsification. So if the sarge installer is good
> > > enough I think we can't stick to the stable release of debian as
> > > base of our distro. Maybe we should use the testing version for our
> > > base?
> >
> > Yes, let's agree on the basics:
> >
> > - We want an installer in Farsi
> > - We want a user friendly installer: including, but not limited to HW
> > detection
> > - We want a distro with new packages in it
> > - We want the whole thing as close as possible to Debian
>
> Agreed!
me too Agreed!
>
> > - None of these features need to be there for the first release.
>
> It depends on what you mean by the first installer. Are you talking
> about 0.1 or 1.0 ?
>
> > Hence I suggest:
> >
> > The next immidiate release shoud be based on KNOPPIX 3.2. It has
> > almost all, except Farsi installer. But that's fine.
>
> I don't see what Knoppix 3.2 can offer more than shabdix. The single
> most visable change in Knoppix 3.1 to 3.2 was in the inclusion of KDE
> 3.1. As we achieved this in Shabdix, then I don't see the reason to
> remaster Knoppix 3.2 Yes I know that Knoppix 3.2 also has some other
> improvments over 3.1, but those are trivial in my opinion. It would be
> cool to remaster Knoppix 3.2, but it is not badly needed. Especially, I
> don't see how it may help us in creating a Farsi Linux distro and
> Installer.
We need a QT wrraper for the installation script. Putting it on the desktop 
would be cool I think
>
> > Next we will take a look at Libranet. At the same time I am working
> > on d-i with Matthias to see what all we need to do.
> >
> > Is this an agreeable solution?
>
> Anything I can do?
>
> And BTW, I am currently downloading Mepix.
It is not comparable to knoppix. Really bad hardware detection and slower.
>
> Cheers
And what  do you think of the extra CDs for standard distro's?