On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:45, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > As per the recommendations from Bruce Perens' User Linux paper > http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html, this thread is to discuss the > applications within the bounded set of Debian Enterprise/ User Linux. > > The bounded set will depend on the flavour. So first comes proposed > flavours (and sub-flavours/ tasks/ yadda) - see previous email/ thread. > > Here are some initial (obviously debatable and incomplete) selections to > start out the bounded-apps conversation: > > * Web Browser ...
* Desktop Suite - GNOME (as more-Windows-like as KDE is, GNOME definitely has greater momentum, with SUN and HP, and now Novell's acquisition of Ximian and SUSE and corresponding statements - really, there's no point fighting the tide on this one). * DB lib, LDAP lib, etc - as a consequence of the GNOME choice, the simple choice for these becomes "does GNOME already provide a relatively feature complete/ stable implementation" (and if so, that's the standard we go with). * Documentation format/ standards - Docbook XML (and for the toolchain - I'm waiting for a reponse to an RFInformation on debian-sgml, which I intend to subsequently cross-post/ discuss on docbook and docbook-apps) -- Debian Enterprise: A Custom Debian Distribution: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/ * PGP Key: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
