On 0, "W. Paul Mills" <wpmills@Mills-USA.com> wrote: > kk5st@swbell.net (Gary Turner) writes: > > >>My original message > >>made clear that I think there may be room for more > >>than one. But there are 10. TEN. I'm saying that > >>somebody could enhance the value of Debian by > >>figuring out which 5 could be eliminated from > >>the distro. > > > > Crap! Debian's (or any market's, for that matter) value is enhanced by > > the availability multiple, even superfluous, choices. It's called > > freedom of choice---even when the choices are trivial. You're worried > > by 10 options? Wait 'til you look for IRC (chat) applications. As I > > recall, there were 48 to choose from. > > I agree! > The large number of choices is what brought me to debian to > start with! The only thing really needed, is a better way to > find the ones I want to try -- and knowing human nature, I > probably will never be satisfied on that one. Most products have a website that will tell you lots about that product. A feature I would love to see is the Debian package search pages including a link to such websites. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." - Leonard Brandwein Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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