RE: branding debian releases
Hi 2gether,
I read your posts with great interest and I wonder if there might be a
chance to overthink the strategy the Debian People setup once (maybe not at
this moment but in the far future).
You know, I'm also quite a newbie with Debian, and YES the strategy is quite
confusing. And as I read in several posts, even advanced users have
different opinions about what stable/unstable/testing means. Also I would
like to bring back a sentence someone said here (can't find the post now
there are too many already *lol*). If you are into a subject so deep, you
fail to think like the "normal" or "newbie" user. That's a good point here!
So why not think about using a strategy that almost every company uses
(although Debian isn't one), e.g. Redhat, SuSe, even Microdoft...........
For me as a user and systems administrator something like this would be much
much better.
Why not do it this way?
enterprise - this is for servers only - not much GUI/ focused on servers/
networking,routing/ multiple cpus/driver support and so on
workstation - this is for home users and workplaces - not much server stuff
here/ focused on multimedia/ x-server/ openoffice and so on
sandbox - (I like that word, Monique :-) this can stay the same and is meant
for people who would like to help the Debian project with further releases,
simply a sandbox to play with to find and report bugs..... (maybe there
should be two then, something like E-sandbox, for the enterprise stuff, and
W-sandbox for the workstation part)
THIS would really be a great change for the better in my eyes.
-Everybody who needs a server will choose enterprise
-Everybody who needs a desktop system will choose workstation
-Everybody who would like to be part of the party would choose sandbox
And yes, the enterprise version should really differ from the workstation
one......!
Of course this is a lot of work, but I think it would encourage more people
to use Debian, and I guess that's one of the goals here isn't it?
Just some thoughts I had reading all your posts.
Greets from Germany,
Simmel
P.S.: And while I'm on it, pleeeeez enhance the installation routine,
something like a graphical interface. This takes the fear off most users.
Take a look at SuSe and Redaht and you'll know what I mean. I know that
there are also a lot of small things which aren't good, like the package
selection, those are far better in Debian. But the "blue screen" :-P is
really annoying and confusing. My first installtion were more like 3 1/2
installations, if you catch my drift.
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