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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Re:  Fwd: Knoppix, KDE
From:       "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle () danka ! de>
Date:       2003-05-12 16:35:50
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Eaden McKee wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> 
> > Charles de Miramon wrote:
> > 
> > > Le Lundi 12 Mai 2003 16:54, Neil Stevens a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > This kind of flexibility would even grow beyond the inclusion of
> > > > third-party software.  With the build tools available, people could 
> > > > make
> > > > demo CDs from developer releases of KDE, or include alternate packages
> > > > (like one of the other KMails).  KDE promoters would be free to show 
> > > > off
> > > > what they want to show off, tuning the CD to their and their audiences'
> > > > needs.
> > > > 
> > > Remastering a Knoppix is pretty easy if you know a little bit the 
> > > Debian packaging system.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ...or so the myth goes.
> 
> 
> I agree,  it's not rocket science, but takes quite a bit of time too, 
> due to shifting and compressing large amounts of data. Everytime you 
> want to test your remaster you have to comress all the data.
> 
> I had a thought on the free / non-free thing. The latest versions of 
> knoppix have a flash plugin installer. It downloads the flash plugin 
> from the internet, and installs it. Could you use something like this to 
> install Acrobat?

The question was not about acrobat. At least not for me. I can live
without acrobat. xpdf does most things (support of PDF hyperlinks)
which I am missing in kghostview.

But nothing is there which could replace the pre-configuration of the
data we offer to Windows Clients. (Once they download it, it turns
out it is a PostScript driver for them -- for the GNU/Linux server it
is just "data").

> Would that be a good compromise?

I can not think of a way to make it work the same way for those
CUPS PostScript drivers for Windows Clients.

Also, for those people who object to the inclusion of the files on
a KDE CD dubbed as "Free-only", I think there is no fundamental
difference: because acting as a "proxy", offering a script which
downloads and installs the non-Free programs  ---  isn't that also
"promoting the use of non-Free software"?

So, no, I don't think it is a good compromise.

> Eaden McKee
> 

Cheers,
Kurt

 
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