[BadVista Advocate] Vista owners

[Sunnz]

If Feisty is good then why don't just fork it and make it free?
Couldn't be that hard with vrms.

2007/4/29, Mostafa Razavi <hom.sepanta at gmail.com>:
> I guess we should definitely go with an existing distribution. If it has
> problems, we can help fix them. IMHO, it's far better than starting from
> scratch.
>
> Concerning gNewSense, and other FSF-approved distros, if anyone has
> experiences working with them, please let us know about their advantages
> and problems. I have not worked with any of them. My last experience was
> with Feisty Fawn, which was great in simplicity of various task, but it
> uses proprietary drivers. I think Feisty, despite this problem, has good
> lessons to teach us. For example, it's method of tackling the problem of
> codecs is excellent.
>
> Homayoon
>
> Jacob Maynard wrote:
> > I'm for it. I would be willing to bet that with all of us chiming in on
> > wanting to help with the BadVista site, BadVista wouldn't have any
> > problems helping out.
> >
> > I see you have already defined your position in this effort. That's
> > outstanding.
> >
> > We need to cover some basic areas on this one:
> > 1. Games - Cover the games that are out there and which run natively on
> > GNU/Linux, and cover which ones run with WinE. But this is going to be the
> > toughest selling point because there's not a huge push for games on
> > GNU/Linux with the same reputation as major video games on Windows and the
> > XBox/PS.
> > 2. Productivity - Obviously OpenOffice.org is on the list. We can include
> > StarOffice, if anyone thinks it is worth mentioning while we are
> > presenting it to the users. The biggest thing that we need to focus on is
> > agreeing on standards. Thunderbird or Evolution for e-mail, even though I
> > think that most of us use Evolution. GNUCash should be included, too.
> > 3. Multimedia - Our distribution should have support for all of this
> > already, or an easy place to download a binary codec package. This is
> > almost as big as the games, if not more so.
> >
> > More advanced areas we can work on may include the command line. You don't
> > want to start off with the command line, though. That's where people say,
> > "Umm, I have something else to do." I know that most of us can't live
> > without the command prompt, but your average user is intimidated by it.
> > Sorry, Yasith. You can't just open them up right off of the bat to this.
> >
> > So I guess that the question should come up; are we intending on creating
> > a distribution of our own that includes all of this support, or are we
> > going to decide on a distribution collectively. I've heard gNewSense, and
> > from the short amount of reading I've done on it, this is creating our own
> > distro. Can we clarify and take a vote on this? This should come second to
> > the website, though.
> >
> > More later.
> >
> > Jacob
> >
>
>
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