Small Base System - Thank You

[Neil Woolford]

At 20:55 04/11/04, you wrote:

>Just a thank you to the designers of Ubuntu for keeping the base system small.
>With debian testing still listing things like the game "abuse" as a 
>release critical bug, I'm glad that Ubuntu decided to stick with a small 
>set of packages.  Please resist the urge to add packages.
>I'm not trying to flame debian, because without their work as a base, 
>Ubuntu would not exist.
>I'll dive into my bunker now.

Don't dive yet!  The simple base system, installed with a minimum of fuss 
and questions, followed by a clean desktop populated with useful stuff that 
"Just Works" is exactly why I am suggesting this distro to people.

My comparison is with SuSE 9.1 which covers the desktop in menus branching 
off menus;  I'm interested in computers, but even I don't want that much 
choice forced on me.  As for trying to support a new user on such a 
system;  well, I don't want to have to start by asking which out of several 
spreadsheets they are trying to use...

Neil 
-------------- next part --------------

---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.782 / Virus Database: 528 - Release Date: 22/10/04