On , January 24, 2005 at 21:06 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
"Malcolm Tyrrell" writes:
I think we should view the IFSO disks as one of our key projects. It gives Free Software great exposure.
I agree. I've finally gotten to see one of the CDs and it's brilliant.
I've made a list of suggestions. David, should I post them here or make a wiki page for them?
The main thing is to add Emacs and a replace Mozilla with Firefox or Epiphany. The rest are really just UI/menu tweaks.
A wiki page is probably a more convenient reference when building the disc (but discussion here).
I agree with Firefox (& Thunderbird, I suppose). But is the page composer available in anything but Moz? What's the total size for all three anyway (since the Gecko core should be shared).
I love Emacs and it's my main working environment, but I'd rather see GCC/G++. That would make the disc useful for students who have programming homework, etc. If free-java-sdk and python also fit then that's a lot of ground covered.
Perhaps we can set up a working group to help David?
This seems like a good fit for a wiki page or three, y/n?
Yes. I'll make a start if you like. The key question is, David, what kind of help do you need? People to test? People to package? What else?
On the issue of CDs vs DVDs, there's probably a lot of old computers out there without DVD drives
I'd agree here.
It's obviously true - every DVD drive can ready CDs, but not the other way around. Still, the attraction not having to pick & choose packages is huge. Can we find out how many people in the target audience would be able to use a DVD?