OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[Oded Maimon]

bruce wrote:

>and matt...
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>go back and reread what my original thought was.. if someone
>produced/supported this kind os 'system' which consisted of the tested apps
>in a bundle.. my gut tells me that there's a market...
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>if you have the systems/services that i mentioned, and others.. i'm sure
>there are people who'd pay... essentially you'd streamline the process of
>putting together a development environment for development teams...
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>my $0.02 worth..
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>-bruce
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matthew Miller
>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 1:55 PM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?
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>On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:53:51PM -0700, bruce wrote:
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>>where can you go to get a complete/downloadable system.. (not a bunch of
>>apps) that you can setup for a webserver, or for an ldap server.. that's
>>essentially ready to go.. i envision something that you install, reboot,
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>and
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>>it's ready to run... not just that the underlying apps are installed...
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>Oh, I see. You want a systems integrator. I bet quite a few people on this
>list do that. Hey, pay me enough and *I* will. :)
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>>as you know, there's often more that has to be done to get an app to
>>run/be useful than just installing...
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>The problem is that by definition, every case has different needs.
>Otherwise, it *would* be a matter of just installing.
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Bruce,

this is a grate thought,

i believe this can be done easily by installing the basic fedora and 
creating yum groups for all the machine types...

it's not a hard job, and i think it is something to think about...