[ubuntu-in] What happened to ubuntu-in development ?

[Vivek]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 15:40 +0530, Parthan SR wrote:
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> Vivek wrote:
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> > > Indian Edition means ubuntu edition made especially for India. Wasn't
> > > difficult to answer :P.
> Sorry, still I do not get it?

different wallpaper, different theme, sounds & possibly diff icon.
Different default services, different default set of installed
packages.Indian calendar + list of holidays.  Claws as default client
rather than hte evolution monster... and many others.

> > > IMHO, the existing ubuntu distribution isn't a very good option for
> > > people with poor net connection or old PCs. Even without any thing nifty
> > > running, ubuntu takes about 200mb of RAM on my system. At my home, I
> > > still use an old system with 256mb RAM. I believe similar would be the
> > > case with many households. With such mem usage, system would just crawl.
> > > It's just a thought, but I believe that it's very important to make
> > > ubuntu a bit leaner.
> Xubuntu? 

Have u tried XUBUNTU ? It's touted to be lightweight alternative to
ubuntu but my personal experience has been very different. Most of the
time it relies on Gnome packages. Other than a different window
manager , and thunar there's not much different between them. It's based
on GTK2 and relies on many gnome packages. It definitely uses "less"
resources but isn't that light.

Fluxbox: There's already a fluxubuntu distribution.

I'm not talking just abt different window manager but a better and
friendlier linux distro based on ubuntu.

> Yes, you can use Ubuntu to create your own custom distros, may
> be using WMs like fluxbox which are comparatively lighter to a GNOME or
> KDE based Ubuntu. But, at the end of the day the question is who is
> going to maintain the packages for them? 

> IMHO, we can try contributing
> to existing packages and packaging them for the latest upstream version
> than doing something like this.

> > > Yes, I was referring to development of new as well as improvement of
> > > existing features. there's still a lot of scope for improvement in
> > > ubuntu.
> Yes sure, If you have any new idea of a cool app propose it, there will
> be some one in this list who wants to join and make it. We had some
> projects started in our team, but as we have become more and more
> occupied with our job we are not able to be active. Would you like to do
> something? Please propose, we were here to help you :)
> > > Apparently, I'm wrong - the group focuses more on promotion rather than
> > > development.
> >
> AFAIK, we have never done any promotion till now. I am eager to know
> what made you conclude on that?
> Disclaimer: The Ubuntu India Loco team has nothing to do with the "Ubunt
> India Promoters" group in Launch Pad, as of now.

Thanks for that clarification. 

Cheers,
Vivek
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