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= Kawiri = |
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== Description == |
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'Kawiri' is a desktop distribution for notebooks. Its purpose is to become |
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a very lightweight yet feature rich and eye pleasing distro. |
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'Kawiri' is a derived distribution, it is based on OpenSDEs' Bare Desktop |
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target, albeit it modifies the package selectio of its ancestor, removing |
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heavily unneeded packages. Small size is a goal, but more than that speed is |
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what 'Kawiri' is after. |
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To achieve this 'Kawiri' will go through a carefull design stage, which will |
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consist not only in selecting the propper kernel options, but also selecting |
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applications. We will try to go with the "One app for a job" philosofy, |
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selecting apps that do the kob well, are fast and not in the last case small. |
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Right now the ideea is to have gtk apps mainly, xorg, and metisse as |
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window manager. We will try to keep out the known memory hogs as KDE or |
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Open Office.Org, and any other applications similar, but as size is just a goal |
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we don't want to sacrifice comfort and user friendliness for the sake of it. |
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Another bold goal of 'Kawiri' is to address the hardware issues that |
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laptop users face today. And if that means introducing binary drivers or |
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applications then so be it. We want to focus on wireless issues, PCMCI, |
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graphic processors and all the other "gadgets" that laptop users are blessed |
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today with. |
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The goals of 'Kawiri' _are_ big, the developer comunity is _small_ |
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yet we feel the need to address all those 'Help my laptop is not woking with linux' |
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entries in various forums. In most of the cases software is there, but either your |
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distro is not careing about that hardware, or the philosofy of the distro ( and read |
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here the LICENSE ) does not allow introduction of pieces of code which are not free. |
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Well, that is not the case with 'Kawiri' our philosofy is 'make it work', by hook or |
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crook. |
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Last but not least 'Kawiri' is easy on the user. We strive for no config |
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we want stuff that works out of the box, even if you have a Vaio, a ThinkPad. |
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Having a branded notebook does not mean that you have to run Windows, or at least it |
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should not mean that, even if your kind provider says so. We don't belive in constraints, |
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if you buy a TV set, do you alow the vendor to dictate the programs that you watch on it? |
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Why should be a laptop different? |
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We hope that we can make a difference, anyway we will try our best. |
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As a true 'Kawiri' we will be voracious in achieving our goals. |
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== The name == |
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'Kawiri' is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands |
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and deserts of central Australia. |
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It is known as a voracious predator. |
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