Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:45, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> As per the recommendations from Bruce Perens' User Linux paper
> http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html, this thread is to discuss the
> applications within the bounded set of Debian Enterprise/ User Linux.
>
> The bounded set will depend on the flavour. So first comes proposed
> flavours (and sub-flavours/ tasks/ yadda) - see previous email/ thread.
>
> Here are some initial (obviously debatable and incomplete) selections to
> start out the bounded-apps conversation:
>
> * Web Browser
...
* Desktop Suite - GNOME (as more-Windows-like as KDE is, GNOME
definitely has greater momentum, with SUN and HP, and now Novell's
acquisition of Ximian and SUSE and corresponding statements - really,
there's no point fighting the tide on this one).
* DB lib, LDAP lib, etc - as a consequence of the GNOME choice, the
simple choice for these becomes "does GNOME already provide a relatively
feature complete/ stable implementation" (and if so, that's the standard
we go with).
* Documentation format/ standards - Docbook XML (and for the toolchain -
I'm waiting for a reponse to an RFInformation on debian-sgml, which I
intend to subsequently cross-post/ discuss on docbook and docbook-apps)
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