Re: [FarsiLinux] New member & suggestions

[Aryan Ameri]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:42, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:

> > > - 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


Agree. It would be really cool, and user-frinedly.


> > And BTW, I am currently downloading Mepix.
>
> It is not comparable to knoppix. Really bad hardware detection and
> slower.


OK, so I am going to skip it.

Now I will  download Morphix (a Modular Knoppix Derivative) and Yoper (a 
new distro geard towards i686 optimization)

> And what  do you think of the extra CDs for standard distro's?

A really nice idea. However given our current resources, I think this 
one shouldn't be high in our agenda, and should wait after we have 
reached some milestones in our own distro.

Cheers

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