[Ubuntu-eg] Revamp Linux

[Ahmed Toulan]

Hi,

I received a call for volunteers on Facebook for a new a new Ubuntu
derivative. The request came from Ihsan Salam a member of the Ubuntu
Malaysia LoCo team. They want to add our logo to the supported by column on
their website. Please if anyone is interested, tell us.

Here is what I received on Facebook:

Revamp aims is to build an all-in OS for user, means, it provides
all-essential apps into one OS. so when you get a revamp, you know you need
not to download wine1.3 to play ms .exe, or you can edit movie using pre
installed openshot. or use chromium browser, readily installed with
antivirus and WOT. of course, this is only tweakings, even normal user can
do this, but what if a new user approaches linux,they may not even know how
to use basic settings. we meant to cater for this group of people.
beyond that, Revamp is meant to look beautiful. so we choose nice wallpaper
from CC license, we put in into desktop, login and lock screen. we set
compiz and we change unity or gnome-panel with a nicer AWN panel.

Basically Revamp 11.2 is not much more than a better mint. seriously, if
one feels he wanted to download mint, it would be better to download revamp
then because revamp is actually mint with better tweak.

But Revamp 12 is more radical because we are now building directly atop of
ubuntu. this is mainly distro political, but beyond that, i realise there
are some conflicts between mint repos and ubuntu. by using ubuntu directly,
this problem will be eliminated instaallah.
why revamp 12 is radical? because we completely stripped of unity. we use
Duece-visage innovation, a linux with two DE, that is user can choos to run
the all-new gnome-shell, or our own version of modified unity,
Revamp-compiz. we fix basic bugs like xslx do not open with libre office,
strip update-manager and install mintupdate, remove firefox and install
chromium, open .deb with the much faster gdebi, install essential but rare
dependencies like bzr , git, put in caja File browser as an addition to
nautilus.we change the plymouth, tweak the lightdm and basically revamp 12
will be our experimental release

Regards,
Ahmed Toulan.
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