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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer
  • Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:51:02 +1100

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:37, Paul wrote:
> Personaly, I don't care if a corporation uses SMGL or not. They aren't
> my target when I develop, my target is people. Corporations are stupid,
> groups of people are usualy stupid. Individuals are usualy intelligent,
> that's why I target them.
>

hehe, I think I understand this ...
Hamish

> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 11:30, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> > > OK, now this thread is starting to go down a path I have been
> > > contemplating quite a bit, lately.
> > >
> > > It seems to me that Source Mage is a prime candidate for creating a
> > > kind of themed Linux distribution. (No groans, please.) :^) It would
> > > take a bit of
> > >
> > > work and would be more of a feature request for the 2.0 version, but I
> > > think
> > >
> > > it would be possible to make the commands, terminology, etc. used in
> > > Source Mage generic enough and abstracted enough that it would be
> > > possible to apply
> > >
> > > different themes to the various parts of SMGL.
> > >
> > > One could make the commands, terminology, etc. more specific to LOTR,
> > > for example. Or take it into the other genre, and use terms in Star
> > > Wars or Star
> > >
> > > Trek or ... The default, of course, would be Source Mage.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > One of our LUG members kept pointing out that our names were silly and no
> > corporation would want something like this. I disagreed as only the
> > admins would know the names. ;) However, a themed Sorcery wouldn't be too
> > bad an idea in the future, especially since we're all about options! ;)
> >
> > We could use more generic names in Sorcery, or just write wrappers on the
> > outside that translate it to the correct names, which wouldn't even be
> > too much work (I hope).
> >
> > -sandalle

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