Idea #3791: Remove windows softwares from Ubuntu cd

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Written by vinutux the 7 Mar 08 at 19:58. Category: Installation.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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There are a lot of windows apps like firefox, blender ,pidgin ...etc in ubuntu installer cd. Those apps are not needed most of the users coz they are not more interest on windows.
Removing those apps make more space on ubuntu installer cd and use those space for including more necessary applications.

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shadowfirebird wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 20:33

This is silly.

Why do you describe Firefox, Blender and Pidgin as "Windows apps"? True, they happen to run under Windows, but they weren't developed to run exclusively on Windows and then ported to Linux; they were developed to run on multiple OS's. Neither to Microsoft have anything to do with them.

Presumably you'd like to remove Gimp, Audacity, Open Office, Java, Python, Ruby, since all of these run under Windows too? Or How about ls and grep -- there are versions of those that run natively under Windows!

...oh wait, look, there's no Ubuntu left.

wolfwitch wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 21:23

Is this a joke?

Seriously- these are Open Source apps that run on both Windows and Linux. They have nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows.

Rob Loach wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 21:32

The applications you mentioned are not "Windows apps". They are applications that are built to run on multiple operating systems. Going by your logic, you could also say that they're "Mac apps". Firefox, Blender and Pidgin are widely used everywhere and are pretty much considered the standard when you think of open source internet browsers, 3D artwork, and instant messengers.

vinutux wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 04:04

ha....... ha....... what a misunderstanding. I am not mentioned that all are windows only app I want to remove windows version (exe) of them including in ubuntu cd. It was also called opencd apps that are ready to install with windows.

AndrewC wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 08:31

Well good news then, Ubuntu hardy comes with Wubi instead of the open source software pack you mentioned.

neon wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 17:23

oooooh, hahaha. xD yeah, what Andrew said.

maybeway36 wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 01:35

Should be marked as done, then.

Ferdil wrote on the 17 May 08 at 16:46

YOU ARE A VERY STUPID PERSON. You are presumptuous and arrogant. You are so used to Windows that you still think that's the center of the world, even if you seem to support Ubuntu.

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