Re: Announce: Simple End-User Linux (SEUL) Project
Matthew Majka wrote:
> Michael Stutz wrote:
> >On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > > I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the one
> > > currently available completely free Linux distribution and improve it
> > > rather than further fragment the community with yet another distribution.
> >
> > Could the project goals of SEUL be met by Debian somehow? It already is a
> > stable, robust distribution, and is not going to go away. It also has gotten
> > easier to install and maintain with recent releases. What if improvements
> > were made to Debian's install and upgrade facilities to make it even easier,
> > and/or more documentation was created in the form of useful tutorials for
> > common procedures -- would this meet SEUL's goals? If so, it would save a
> > lot of work both for the SEUL team (who would be creating a new distribution
> > from scratch, which realistically would probably never be as robust as
> > Debian), and for the Debian project (who would gain the assistance of the
> > SEUL folks in making Debian easier to install and maintain).
>
> I definitely have to agree with these statements. I think
> the last thing a new Linux user needs, is another Linux
> distribution to choose from. I know I was a bit
>
Exactly - just going into Linux a few weeks ago I had a look on S.u.s.e, Redhat,
DDl and - good luck - detected debian which became immediately my favorite.
I'm not a typical office or home-user, I have a lot of programming experience but
the Unix world is quite different. I understand that the editor vi was developed
for terminals without cursors but it's a starter's horror.
A promising concurrence to MS are concepts as developed in StarOffice4.0 or the
KDE window manager. However, they all need a comfortable LINUX installation for a
further growing market share. And time is running, especially if Micro$oft might
win the game against the US-Justice department.
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