Re: DPL candidate question
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> 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?
Not as such. I think it would be more productive to work with either
Dell or one or more of their resellers that already specialise in
servers (hopefully, Debian Linux servers) and ensure that they know the
best ways of contributing their bug reports or patches to Debian.
Hardware problems are very hard to fix without the hardware at hand, so
it would be very problematic for random Debian developers to fix such
issues. What we can do is make sure that it is as easy as possible to
fix this issues for the people that do have the hardware and the will to
make it work.
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Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs mailto:aigarius@debian.org
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