From: Alex <imphasing@...>
Date: 2009-05-15T22:54:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby based linux

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Quite frankly, if you're attempting to target this at Ruby developers, I
think most of us (I know at least me) would rather put together our own
setup. I would rather pick and choose everything I want in the first place,
instead of my development environment being overflowing
with extraneous software.
If you're just making this as "something to do", then I completely
understand, but don't expect developers to want to use something that's not
customized how we like it.

As far as editors go, Emacs and VIM are the standards, and as long as you've
got rubygems and ruby installed, the user can handle pretty much everything
else.


Alex

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Tim Apple <tim@tdapple.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am starting a hobby project which is a Linux distro focused on Ruby.
> The plan is for it to be a Ubuntu spin, with all the ruby libraries
> installed by default.
>
> I would like to also implement as much ruby based software as possible,
> including shoes apps. What I need know is what you all need or would
> like to see in a distro as Ruby developers. If you could take some time
> to answer the following questions.
>
> 1. editor you use most with ruby?
>
> 2. packages you require as a developer that may not involve ruby?
>
> 3. I want to use allot of shoes stuff, or at least have it available.
> Since shoes is gtk based I was going to go with Gnome or Xfce desktop
> enviroment..opinions?
>
>
> Mind you this is not somthing that will be released tomorrow...I am in
> planning stages now...I will hope to have a release out around Karmic's
> release. Other things I need..
>
> Name ideas?
>
> Artwork....wallpaper, icons, logo(once I have a name
>
> webspace...once I have a name I will just start a wordpress blog..but
> once in production I would like to have the site done in Rails just to
> be as Ruby as possible.
>
> Well thats enough for now...thanks for your time everybody.
>
> Tim Apple
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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