Matthew Majka wrote: > 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 >
Exactly - just going into Linux a few weeks ago I had a look on S.u.s.e, Redhat, DDl and - good luck - detected debian which became immediately my favorite. I'm not a typical office or home-user, I have a lot of programming experience but the Unix world is quite different. I understand that the editor vi was developed for terminals without cursors but it's a starter's horror. A promising concurrence to MS are concepts as developed in StarOffice4.0 or the KDE window manager. However, they all need a comfortable LINUX installation for a further growing market share. And time is running, especially if Micro$oft might win the game against the US-Justice department. __ IT http://home.kiss.de/~i_thum/ Web-Design, HTML, JavaScript -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
