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Re: Few Simple Question



Em Ter, 2002-02-19 às 04:11, Gustavo Noronha Silva escreveu:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:29:44 -0700
> "Francis Pineda" <FrancisPineda@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > 1. What is the user base targeted?  Is it simply geared towards the home-user
> > looking for a free OS?  Or is it geared more towards the power-user?
> "From professionals to professionals", I don't think Debian is home-user-ready,
> but there're lots of people interested in working and helping on that direction
> (like me, for one)... today I'd say Debian is for the power-user
> 
> > 2. Where is Debian located?  I understand there are over 800 distrubuters
> > nationwide that communicate via e-mail and message boards.  But is there a
> > specific "home" to debian?
> "distributers"? I think the other repliers misunderstood this, or maybe I...
> or better... maybe you =)
> 
> there aren't 800+ "distributers", there are 800+ registered Debian Developers,
> which are persons offically working on Debian in a volunteer basis
> 
> yes, there's home for Debian it's called "earth" by americans, some people
> say "world" to reference that home too... people around the globe have other
> names for that home as well... I usually call it 'mundo', or 'terra' =)
>

And I don't know which "nation" he was talking about, the 800+
devellopers a scattered around debian's home: the world. (and that's
only limited by the fact that no alien candidated yet :)
)


Michel.
 
> > Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world of open
> > source OS!
> be welcome
> 
> []s!
> 
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>     Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov>
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