captainpotato
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Posted: Jan. 30 2006,02:11 |
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As everybody else has a view, I might as well add mine ;)
I'd like to see the Madwifi package as part of the core installation as it's so useful and supports so many wireless cards.
I'd also like Abiword included (although a newer version than in the myDSL repository - the newer versions have grammar checking as well), as it's a proper word processor but not so large.
As for what to remove - if Abiword is there, then GUI text editors aren't so important (and there's nano for console-based editing). With Abiword, there's also the ability to read Word files, so Antiword isn't as important as a core package; the same goes for the spell checker package.
As long as one of FF and Dillo is included, the other can be downloaded. I'd suggest FF 1.5, if only because it's more widely known than Dillo, so any new users won't be put off DSL by not having a known browser. As nice as Dillo is in terms of speed, it just doesn't support all that is needed in a modern browser. I wouldn't object to Links returning, but anybody planning to console web browsing won't be a newbie, so will know how to get it from the myDSL repository anyway. Hell, why not Opera instead - an older version is in the myDSL respository.
As has been mentioned earlier, the games aren't so important, other than for providing a rounded desktop. They are easy enough to download separately anyway, and in any case, games are a personal preference issue, so just let people download what they want when they want it 
I'd also like a more complete grub frugal installation script that has all the lilo options, rather than having to run the lilo one first, then the grub one. Even better - a single script that allows the user to choose (or just dump lilo, as grub is much nicer and easier to customise).
Perhaps apt-related packages should be moved to myDSL, as I thought that it was discouraged to install software using this method, so not giving the option immediately ought to encourage users to go down the myDSL path. This, of course, assumes that there are no dependencies that need them.
Also, if DSL is a desktop-oriented distro, are server packages (betaftpd to name one) so necessary in the base installation? I'd have thought that they could be myDSL packages.
Ultimately, with only 50mb it's not possible to do everything, but including a few larger apps that do pretty much everything that an app of that type should is more important than trying to cover every base, IMO. I'd much rather depth than breadth of apps.
There, now that's off my chest... ;)
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