I like the idea. I presume the X-axis is time and Y is number of packages (functionality). The picture seems correct to me, would be good to quantify both axis with the real data (the number of packages and release dates can relatively easily be backtracked, I bet). Another interesting thing to visualise and/or explain in text might be distributions-users: effort required to configure | x | | x | # | x # | # | # x | x |x x +--------------- amount of deviation of the standard config with x plotting RH and # plotting Debian Hence, in my view, users go from plain user -> power user -> contributor -> co-developer (of some OSS project). In this evolution, lots of users start at SuSE or RedHat and end up at Debian or Slackware. That could be explained by - The mainstream distro's work out of the box and provide GUI's for limited configuration. However, their /etc is a mess. - Debian and Slackware provide less GUI's but have a much more cleaned up /etc for instance. Perhaps this might help getting a bit less often that never-ending debate on which distro rules the most. ;-) Auke On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 17:30, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Hi! > I'd like to share some thoughts with you: > > I work with people and computers, and I've come to like debian most of > the linux dists. So what I do (and would like to do even more) is bring > linux to users who havent seen (or even heard about!) linux before. > > To present how the different debian releases are related, I'd like to > visualize with a graph. The graph represents package versions (and > overall functionality): > > Debian GNU/Linux releases: > > § §§ §§ > § §§§ § §§§ > § § § § > §§§ §§ § § § § __--'' > § § § § § __--'' > § § § __--''************ > § § __--'' > § __--''************ > __--'' > ************ > > Legend: > §§§ Unstable > _-' Testing > *** Stable (Official Releases) > > If all this makes sense, others can hopefully also benefit from my idea. > E.g. someyhing like this could also be used to improve the page on > http://www.debian.org/releases/ > > I'd like to know what you think of this idea, if it is correct at all, > and if something could be improved. Maybe there is something (better) > already? Thanks for your time. > > Cheers, > johan > > -- > Johan Ehnberg > johan@ehnberg.net > "Windows? No... I don't think so." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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