Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
Thanks, Ed ... someone "gets it".
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> I have to agree with George, excepting that ultimately no one can
> force the developers of Debian to do things in a particular way if they
> don't want to. Apparently it comes down to what is the majority opinion
> among the developers: do they want Debian to have a broader appeal or
> are they satisfied with it appealing only to a small high-tech clique.
> I like Debian; I chose it because of the tight, sophisticated package
> management that was night and day better than Slackware and slightly
> better
> (at the time) than RH (probably still is). Its core is OpenSource,
> which to me is good, but its not hostile to other kinds of software.
> I've read this thread over the last couple of days and am disturbed. I
> understood from the beginning what George was saying; his example and
> analogy was clear to me, i.e., those not familiar with the linux
> universe might conclude that Deb uses linux v2.0 and RH uses linux
> v5.1. This may seem silly at first, but I'm sure that we've all made an
> incorrect (and possibly in hindsight, silly) assumption at one point in
> our lives about something that we were not knowledgeable about.
> Hopefully the LSB or something will provide some base reference that
> can
> provide prospective users a better way to compare the different
> distributions, not to mention making it easier for software vendors to
> support Linux. In general, without knowing the specifics of course,
> it sounds like a reasonable idea, at least from reading about it on
> freshmeat, it sounds reasonable.
> The responses to George's suggestion were . . . interesting. I wonder
> if the majority of developers share this hostility towards new users.
> It would certainly have a sobering effect on my enthusiasm for Debian
> (and I suspect others as well). Linux needs Debian, but Debian needs
> users. The last thing I want to see is a Linux community dominated by
> commercial distributions, but Debian can't succeed in the long run
> without appealing to a wide user base, so as to have some influence on
> the direction that Linux goes. You would think that based on the tone
> of the Debian website, Debian is meant to appeal to wide array of
> people. But the responses George got suggest otherwise.
>
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> Ed
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