Re: [OS:N:] Corrections about the RULE project for old PCs

[Marco Fioretti <m fioretti inwind it>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 17:08:50 at 05:08:50PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> 
> > This is the problem we aim to solve. We know the same things that you
> > pointed out, and we know that going to that level is above the skills
> > of the average Linux desktop newbie. We "just" want to add to the
> > stock RH stuff another "installation option" whose immediate result is
> > ALREADY optimized for older PCs with very few RAM.
> 
> This is what I thought the SEUL Project (SEUL = Simple End User Linux)
> was/is trying to do. How are RULE's aims different from those of SEUL?
> 
Last time I checked, the SEUL project only offered a linux package for low
end school computers (our target too) based on an *old* Slackware.
To us, this (old SW, not this or that distro) is like giving up.
 Our purpose is, after each release of
RH,  to provide the instruments for running it on an old machines
without swearing two weeks after config options and RPM dependencies.

Our FAQ (when it will be back online one or two days from now) explain
more in detail why we didn't join SEUL or other projects: please be
patient (or ask me offline for a text version...)

Apart from this, the SEUL guys *are* doing a lot of good things: I did
email them about RULE some months ago, but never got an answer :-(

	Ciao,
		Marco Fioretti

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