[Ilugc] Fedora Core 6
- From: b.ghose@xxxxxxx (Baishampayan Ghose)
- Date: Wed Oct 25 21:43:54 2006
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:11 PM, Toufeeq Hussain cobbled together
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Toufeeq,
That's nothing unexpected. I know many people who don't use Ubuntu
simply because they don't have Internet access. Ubuntu comes with
only one CD and it's quite painful to install extra software like
multimedia codecs on Ubuntu of you don't have Internet.
Don't quite agree. The thing is people get drawn into Linux for two
reasons.
1. They get influenced by the local LUG or friends in wich case they
end up using what is the popular distro. In today's case it would be
Ubuntu.
2. A lot of people start using the distro which they get "trained"
in. This includes people in training institutes, colleges and
offices. The offices usually use FC as most of the
production-linux-work happens on RHEL and FC would be the default
distro choice for trainees and non-production usage.
May be you are right. I can notice that there is still a lot of inertia
about Red Hat (& Fedora) in colleges and around people who have heard
about some sort of GNU/Linux distribution in the past. Many people have
asked me for Red Hat 9 CDs and a lot of them are using Red Hat 13 or 14
(which is actually Fedora Core <something>). Somehow the name Red Hat
seems to have a lot of appeal attached to it ;)
That said, installing software on Ubuntu on a machine without Internet
is still painful. Personally I won't recommend Ubuntu to a college
student without Internet access because I know that he will invariably
need something which is not provided in Ubuntu CD and then will hit a
brick wall. Fedora is slightly better in those cases as the 4-5 CDs
contain a lot of software and libraries which can be easily installed as
and when needed.
Other distributions like Fedora & OpenSUSE come with 4-5 CDs which
contain most of the available software and thus are used by many
people.
Though I agree that Internet connectivity does hold back enthusiastic
users, I don't think many normal-users of Ubuntu would like to have
the complete repositories at their disposal. Also, with the presence
of DVD's this should not be a problem. Doesn't Ubuntu provide DVD
images ?
Yes, people who need only a web browser, an email client and a messaging
application will be more than happy with the Ubuntu CD (that's in fact
the target audience of the CD). But there are _some_ people (students,
educators mainly) who will need more things, like a DBMS engine, a Web
Server, may be some C library, GNU Emacs, or something else which is not
provided in the CD. In those cases lack of connectivity is a major
problem. The DVD, btw doesn't do much as it doesn't contain the full
main repositories. It is a combined installed for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.
in both text and GUI modes.
We are actually thinking about creating an extra CD with essential
packages not already provided in the CD. There is a preliminary list of
packages to be included on the wiki page
http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Ubuntu_IN_Extra_CD. You all are welcome to add
to it. Once we reach a critical mass, then we will create the CD and
put up for distribution through various channels.
-Toufeeq PS: welcome to ILUGC ;)
Thanks! I have been lurking for a week or so. I am very happy to be a
part of one of the most active GLUGs in the country. Rock on!
Regards,
BG
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