[ First of all, apologies for the delayed response; I'm catching up after several days of FOSDEM-plague :-( ] Hi Curt, On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:52:20PM -0500, Curt Larson wrote: >As kind of a follow-up to the basic 'what would you do as DPL that you >could not do as DD?' I would like to know more about how you would >handle marketing Debian. The very hot topic this week is Dell's move >to offer open source alternatives. Buried several clicks away from >Dells 'Ideas in Action' page is a vague reference to Debian pertaining >to 8G servers. Would you as DPL make it a primary goal to attract as >many DD's as you could to work specifically on eliminating the gotchas >of installing Debian on Dell Desktops, Laptops and Servers working >towards putting Debian at the top of Dells (and maybe others to >follow) list of approved and pre-installed OS's? >~'your friendly debian-vote watcher' I think it's a great idea to help as many people use Debian as possible. However, I'm not going to make it a primary DPL goal to work on supporting any particular vendor's hardware. If there are people that would like to work on such a goal, I'll happily encourage them as much as I can. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
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