Comments on: What is Ichthux? http://www.itfreedom.co.uk/archives/29 Open source for real people Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:48:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Raphink http://www.itfreedom.co.uk/archives/29#comment-2 Raphink Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:07:19 +0000 http://www.itfreedom.co.uk/archives/29#comment-2 Thanks for this nice post. Well the reason to call Ichthux an OS, or distro, is so people don't get confused. Ichthux is a distro the same way Kubuntu or Edubuntu are distros: it is totally (or will be with Ichthux 6.10) embedded in Ubuntu, and only uses different settings at install to customize the desktop. Since we have Ubuntu and Debian developers in our midst, we can work directly in Ubuntu and Debian to provide the packages we need (apps, Sword modules, customization metapackages) so we can work from within Ubuntu. It is still easier to call it a distro for many people because we release an iso image and many people really don't want to know whether it's Ubuntu or Kubuntu or whatever since they see it says Ichthux when they boot... God bless Thanks for this nice post.

Well the reason to call Ichthux an OS, or distro, is so people don’t get confused. Ichthux is a distro the same way Kubuntu or Edubuntu are distros: it is totally (or will be with Ichthux 6.10) embedded in Ubuntu, and only uses different settings at install to customize the desktop.

Since we have Ubuntu and Debian developers in our midst, we can work directly in Ubuntu and Debian to provide the packages we need (apps, Sword modules, customization metapackages) so we can work from within Ubuntu.

It is still easier to call it a distro for many people because we release an iso image and many people really don’t want to know whether it’s Ubuntu or Kubuntu or whatever since they see it says Ichthux when they boot…

God bless

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