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I would say that would be the typical target audience. + +Do you remember, years ago, how Mandriva had a kind of "store" where you could +buy software, a one click installation system. Would it be possible to do +custom installation through a kind of web-based gui to keep it simple for +those first starting off with Linux. I'm thinking, something like the "App +Store" that Apple uses. It could be free or some things could be for cost... +just a thought. + +-Nathan + +On Wednesday, 06 October 2010 17:27:20 andré wrote: +><i> Hoyt Duff a écrit : +</I>><i> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andré<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">andr55 at laposte.net</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> >> So far in simplified terms, for the "education" target, we have focus on +</I>><i> >> school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional +</I>><i> >> gov'ts in Germany. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Here I mean focus in terms of promotion, not in terms of the content of +</I>><i> the DVD. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > Do you have a link to any Mandriva docs that detail how the package +</I>><i> > lists for different "targets" can be created and implemented? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In short, it would be part of creating the installation DVD. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Mandriva does not implement this function in a manner useful to our +</I>><i> purposes. +</I>><i> Let me explain. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There would be a number of install groups, (for want of a better +</I>><i> expression), all on the same DVD. +</I>><i> Each group will have a list of packages to be installed, which could be +</I>><i> individually selected/deselected as desired. +</I>><i> This is similar to what is already available on a Mandriva install DVD, +</I>><i> with an important difference : install groups would not be mutually +</I>><i> exclusive. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In other words, the "education" group (targeting school needs), the +</I>><i> "young family" group (targeting families with young children), and the +</I>><i> "home office" group, would probably all contain, for example, a version +</I>><i> of OpenOffice (be it Go-oo, LibreOffice, or the officiel OpenOffice from +</I>><i> Oracle/Sun). +</I>><i> Currently, on a Mandriva installation DVD, each application is in only +</I>><i> one group.("Server" being one of their groups.) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Overlapping installation groups allows us to target many uses on the +</I>><i> same DVD. +</I>><i> We could consider a target as a usage focus. +</I>><i> Many users would have more than one focus -- for example, developers +</I>><i> would want various development tools, as well as maybe "home office" if +</I>><i> they are an independant consultant. +</I>><i> There also could be a multi-level tree. A global group for developers, +</I>><i> with a sub-group for packagers (RPM tools), another for C/C++, another +</I>><i> for Perl, etc. +</I>><i> Or for a potentially more common theme, a global group for education, +</I>><i> with sub-groups for "pre-school/kindergarten", "elementary", +</I>><i> "secondary", "post-secondary". +</I>><i> And these various subgroups would almost necessarily have overlaps. +</I>><i> The possibilities are only limited by our collective imaginations. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The more I think of this, I see an advantage of allowing the DVD +</I>><i> installer to access an external group file, (on a usb memory key for +</I>><i> example), for more flexibility on installation. +</I>><i> Especially useful to install the same software selection on a large +</I>><i> number of computers -- without creating a custom installation DVD. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Think of the potential :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - André (andre999) +</I></PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000925.html">[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#923">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#923">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#923">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#923">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |