Hi there Damir, I've got some friends with experience building specialized Ubuntu releases, and I've been using and developing on Debian since 1996. Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist. Cheers, C.J. Sent from my PDP-11 <div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 18, 2014 7:39 AM, "Emily M. Bender" <<a href="mailto:ebender@uw.edu">ebender@uw.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div> </div><div>This looks like an interesting chance to raise the profile of DELPH-IN tools, at least among linguists. Is anyone interested in working with Damir, or at least pointing him in the right direction?</div> <div> </div><div>Emily</div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Damir Cavar <<a href="mailto:damir.cavar@gmail.com" target="_blank">damir.cavar@gmail.com</a>> Date: Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:36 AM Subject: Linguist PPA for Ubuntu and special Live-System 14.04 To: "Emily M. Bender" <<a href="mailto:ebender@uw.edu" target="_blank">ebender@uw.edu</a>> Hi Emily, we are setting up a special Ubuntu PPA, currently empty: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~linguist/+archive/linguist" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~linguist/+archive/linguist</a> and we are creating a special "for linguists" Ubuntu live-system for USB-Thumb-drives (maybe using USB-3 ones so that it would be usable). We might launch this next week or in two weeks to add it as a new activity to the fund-drive. We are collecting ideas for packages that are not commonly part of Ubuntu (we will have a list of packages for CL and linguistics that are in Ubuntu on our <a href="http://new.linguistlist.org/software/" target="_blank">http://new.linguistlist.org/software/</a> page (working on this, an user-extensible catalog of linguistically relevant software, replacing our old Linguist software info service). If you or some of your students have ideas, contributions, we can share the hidden Bitbucket repository (Git) where we set up the package code, or find other ways to exchange tools or just lists of useful tools. We generate the package code for the PPA from the Git-repository. Our goal is to have a fully functional Ubuntu (most recent version) with all the common packages available for installation, and some packages preinstalled, running from an USB-drive on Macs (Intel) and PCs. We are also considering to come up with special versions for Intel-based tablets (some of the Asus tablets, or the Microsoft Surface etc.). Brent Woo was showing me the Ubuntu that you use for grammar engineering. Maybe we can bring this together and build finally a specialized version with the common tools that we use for teaching and research? I contacted Cannonical and asked for the permission to extend the boot-logo and other symbols with "for Linguists" and so on. Thanks! CU DC -- Please support the LINGUIST List with a donation - Fund Drive 2014: <a href="http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/</a> Damir Cavar Director of the Institute for Language Information and Technology Moderator of The LINGUIST List Eastern Michigan University <a href="http://linguistlist.org/people/damir_cavar.html" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/people/damir_cavar.html</a> </div> <div> </div>-- Emily M. Bender Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a> </div></div> </blockquote></div>