Morgan posted an update: 4 months, 4 weeks ago · View
Im keen we just need to choose if we gonna make it a ubuntu guide or other flavour. We could also start with a ubuntu guide and let the other guys with other flavours maybe do post to do same thing for other flavours. Im all for collaboration
I’ll do an openSUSE guide. I think we should have 2 parts. a) initial install and b) addons like flash, mp3, etc.
… although for (a) there are lots of install howto’s, opensuse site has one too.
Note: will refer to en.opensuse.org many times in the guide.
What else/different should be in it?
@Morgan, two things I really like for Ubuntu are ”AptonCD (included by default in Linux Mint) and Remastersys
AptonCD takes the cache of .deb files you have downloaded via synaptic/aptitude and creates a ”software disk” that you can insert in any other Ubuntu box to update/add to its software
Remastersys allows you to create an installable liveDVD from your existing Ubuntu installtion — ie it has all the apps you’ve added already included.
This is great Andrew and like i said I know there is hordes of how to on the web but I believe if anyone wants to get into linux they would stop of here first. Most of the how to documents as I learned my first time around FOSS is that they install almost every application under the sun twice. Why would a person using windows want 6 browsers 10 mp3 players and 5 chat application. I agree with you fully. A simple how to from scratch with a cd or dvd and then a addons one with codecs, media , etc. something simple to make our favourite distro work with out the box applications and do anything a M$ can. I found this site looking for other FOSS users that I could get info from on how to do thing easier in my distro and so far i have gotten a nice kids distro from you for my 2 year old to play with and my son has realy taken to Ubuntu. He asked me today to put it back on his machine.
I’ll do an openSUSE guide. I think we should have 2 parts. a) initial install and b) addons like flash, mp3, etc.
… although for (a) there are lots of install howto’s, opensuse site has one too.
Note: will refer to en.opensuse.org many times in the guide.
What else/different should be in it?
@Morgan, two things I really like for Ubuntu are ”AptonCD (included by default in Linux Mint) and Remastersys
AptonCD takes the cache of .deb files you have downloaded via synaptic/aptitude and creates a ”software disk” that you can insert in any other Ubuntu box to update/add to its software
Remastersys allows you to create an installable liveDVD from your existing Ubuntu installtion — ie it has all the apps you’ve added already included.
This is great Andrew and like i said I know there is hordes of how to on the web but I believe if anyone wants to get into linux they would stop of here first. Most of the how to documents as I learned my first time around FOSS is that they install almost every application under the sun twice. Why would a person using windows want 6 browsers 10 mp3 players and 5 chat application. I agree with you fully. A simple how to from scratch with a cd or dvd and then a addons one with codecs, media , etc. something simple to make our favourite distro work with out the box applications and do anything a M$ can. I found this site looking for other FOSS users that I could get info from on how to do thing easier in my distro and so far i have gotten a nice kids distro from you for my 2 year old to play with and my son has realy taken to Ubuntu. He asked me today to put it back on his machine.