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midori is the best pick... this always happens with lightweight distros...
they start out light.. then worry about attracting more users and the
whole thing gets bloated.... stick to your guns and put out a light weight
distro  period.

Regards,
Ronnie
Buntfu.com




> Unfortunately, whichever browser you chose, a bunch of potential users are
> going to be turned off. An alternative to consider is initially install no
> browser, then have a post-install script that will ask the user to decide,
> something like this:
>
> Browser:
> 1. Firefox (default)
> 2. Midori
> 3. Epiphany
> 4. Arora
> 5. Chromium
> 6. none
> etc.
>
> Office:
> 1. Abiword + Gnumeric (default)
> 2. Openoffice.org
> 3. none
>
> Image editor:
>
> Music player:
>
> Launcher:
> 1. Kupfer
>
> IM Client:
>
> etc
>
> The script might not have to do anything more than a few sudo apt-get
> installs. I don't know if this breaks some Ubuntu philosopy, but I think
> it
> opens the distro up to a *much* wider audience.
>
> I'm sure you can't make dramatic changes to Ubiquity, and I know you don't
> want the user to have to make a lot of decisions at install time, but I'd
> *FAR* rather pick between a), b) and c), and know that the config is setup
> properly than to have to figure out how to delete one package and install
> another. You could even start with with the question "Do you want to
> select
> packages other than the defaults (Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric etc)?"
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:40:35 -0000, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <
>> ethnopunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>  `
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:27:58 -0000, 神癒礁湖
>>>> <rafaellaguna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  LOL. Discussion about browser is out of the box! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, fully agree with Julián Alarcón and Jonay Santana. I'm only a
>>>>> designer (and was a coder, but not now). Mother's impressions are
>>>>> good
>>>>> as they are perfect beta testers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Midori and Arora are the best browser for this release / distro.
>>>>> Arora
>>>>> was even capable to load complex certificates accesing the tricky
>>>>> goverment pages (educational ministry, for example) and not Midori.
>>>>> So,
>>>>> equation gets simple.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have to keep an eye on speed, easyness and also features, and
>>>>> Midori
>>>>> lack a bit of functions that are already implemented on Arora.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anybody wants a geek distro try compiling a minial Gentoo with
>>>>> that
>>>>> rare fork of KDE. Lubuntu must be installable on any machine with ANY
>>>>> user.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Not tried Arora, another one to look at.
>>>> As the browser is probably the most important piece of software, from
>>>> a
>>>> users perspective, this has to be got right.  The problem for me is, I
>>>> like
>>>> my 'bells & whistles" on my browser and find it hard to use some of
>>>> the
>>>> simpler ones.  I’m quite the opposite with media players, I dislike
>>>> all this
>>>> play list silliness and other complications.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Chromium is great. However, I still think the distro should be called
>>> Lewbuntu. :)
>>>
>>>  I thought LoUbuntu :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>>
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