ke4nt1
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Posted: July 13 2004,13:19 |
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| Quote | | Dont all jump to help me at once ............. |
Combining the reputaton of DSL, and it's integrity as a solid distro,
with your "Distributed Computing Payload" , and then offering them
to people for "free" smells of bad karma...
The addition of a package such as DPAD adds no value to Damn Small Linux,
or offers any gain to any members of its userbase,
other than to gain cpu cycles towards "someone's score or totals"
I won't get into the moral/ethical issues about providing folks with
a D/C package imbedded within a "freebie" .
IMHO, it sounds as bad as kazaa's - spyware/malware installing to my
OS without my knowledge or permission.
I assume we're just going to "take you at your word" that you will
be SURE to inform all the recipients of your "freebie" DSL disk
of your included D/C payload...
I love remastering.... It's one of the features that makes DSL such
a customizable wonder to work with.
Distributed Computing? - count me out..
Perhaps that's why we're not all "jumping"
Since DPAD is such an easy program to install to a distro,
why do you need to hide it in the .iso?
Offering it as an extension, along with a wine extension,
as well as a synaptic extension, would be a nice contribution
to the DSL community.
Extensions require no remastering of the .iso, and they are easy
to use for all DSL users. Just add them to the disk.
This gives the user the option of using it or not.
A wealth of info about extension building is in the forums..
There are many of us here that offer assistance and help
with extension building as well.
Time to crack open the books, and read the forums...
Or, perhaps find another LiveCD distro that includes these packages.
Good Luck,
73
ke4nt
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