For Laptops:
Laptop
+--- Personal Laptop (fully featured, multimedia, office, web +++)
+--- Business Laptop (Office suite, web, mindmanager, groupware, project organizer)
+--- Tablet (configured tablet, handwriting recognition, virtual keyboard, doodle tool of sorts, PIM software)
+--- Web surfing only (guess, prepared with java, flash ++. Reduced menu, lighter desktopmanager (often old computers))
Divide them into the most frequently used purposes of a laptop
On 8/12/06, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
jdd wrote:
> by kind of desktop:
>
> * kde
> * gnome
> * windowmaker
> * xfce
> * others (fvwm,...)
> * no graphics at all
Some of that choice - KDE/Gnome/other - is today made even before you
choose groups of software. I still think the grouping should be mostly
about the role the system is intended for, but obviously the type of
desktop is important. The other choices you have listed - windowmaker,
xfce, fvwm, etc - are probably less often used, and whilst the
grouping/software config must be flexible, we also have to draw a line.
The grouping is after all a compromise between a completely default
install without options, and the other extreme of having to select all
packages yourself :-)
/Per
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Helsing Kristian Alvestad