Michael Stutz wrote: >On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote: > > > I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the one > > currently available completely free Linux distribution and improve it > > rather than further fragment the community with yet another distribution. > > Could the project goals of SEUL be met by Debian somehow? It already is a > stable, robust distribution, and is not going to go away. It also has gotten > easier to install and maintain with recent releases. What if improvements > were made to Debian's install and upgrade facilities to make it even easier, > and/or more documentation was created in the form of useful tutorials for > common procedures -- would this meet SEUL's goals? If so, it would save a > lot of work both for the SEUL team (who would be creating a new distribution > from scratch, which realistically would probably never be as robust as > Debian), and for the Debian project (who would gain the assistance of the > SEUL folks in making Debian easier to install and maintain).
I definitely have to agree with these statements. I think the last thing a new Linux user needs, is another Linux distribution to choose from. I know I was a bit dissappointed with the fragmentation when I started with it (about 3 months ago). Please take Debian and improve the installation utilities (I'm a big fan of SGI's 'swmgr'. Anyone want to write a clone for dpkg?). Maybe move the documentation into a web-based format (HTML) to make the current information easier to navigate. Maybe web-based admin tools? -- __________________________________ Matthew Majka - Software Engineer Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
