Re: Small-Business Class Linux



Mark Shelby enlightened us with:
Hello all, I am interested in forming a distro specifically geared
toward small business users in offices that have around 10 PC's. I
think this is a niche' market that hasn't yet been addressed.

I would like to base the distro off of Debian and KDE using source
code and reducing the size of the distro.

Why do you think that Ubuntu isn't suitable for this? It's based on
Debian, its base installation fits on a single CD, and I doubt that
any single person or small team can create a distribution that's as
streamlined as Ubuntu within reasonable time.

What I envision is the basic Debian framework with the 2.6 kernel
and the KDE desktop with minimal addons. For example "kdegames"
would not be compiled in

There you've made a bad decision. One of the most used office software
is Patience. People _have_ to relax every once in a while.

Sybren
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Sybren Stüvel
Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/
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