[BadVista Advocate] Vista owners

[Ringo Kamens]

The gnewsense devs are working on a fiesty fork but it's going to be a
while. You can help them out if you want by joining the discussion
list.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 4/28/07, Sunnz <sunnzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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