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
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
-- Helsing Kristian Alvestad