GNOME Summary for 30th March to 19th April

"Would you mind sharing your ideas about it? Anyone else can feel to share what they have been thinking about this too."

Well most of my ideas are on

http://www.advogato.org/person/sisob/

and http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2339

The general idea would be to fully integrate gnome with a dsitribution

in such a way that the user would never have to be faced with linux internals

if they don't want to. I want the operating system to fell fast and

integrated.

One of the most important part of my idea is that it be a task based os.

Instead of saying "this app is cool lets include it" i'd say "we need

the os to do X so lets look at all the apps that do X, pick the best

one, include it and them out if they need it".

Right now I'm thinking redhat 9.1 with gnome 2.4 and some Ximian mixed in

of possible debian or slackware/dropline. Yeah I know, none of that

is out but It'll be summer at least by the time I get to it.

I've aready looked into how i could do it with readhat. It's quite easy

to customise the installer with new artwork, and remove packages that

aren't needed.

There is a gnome-os list here http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-os/index.html - it looks totally dead, so we could take that over.

The biggest point of my plan is to extend the "just works" philosophy

from the desktop to the whole OS.

MArk (sisob@eircom.net)

If you have an more questions feel free to ask.