On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:21:08AM +0200, Alex de Landgraaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Also, Debian focuses on its rock-solid stability and sturdiness. This is > wonderful, but Debian isn't moving very fast, IMHO.
The reason this is a problem, IMO, is primarily the recent explosion of "end-user"-type free software. Certain other operating systems only release a major new version every few years, and they seem to be doing fine in terms of being up-to-date-enough. (that isn't to say that a project which focuses on backporting GUI-ish to the current stable wouldn't be useful) > There are so many > packages avalible and they all need to work well to be added to the > distribution. Using Woody would (pun intended :) work, but it still is > quite a hassle to set things up "like they should be". My proposal is to > only take those packages that would be needed in an end-user system to > create a more sleek, fine-tuned distribution where the focus lies on > effectiveness towards the end-user. It's not obvious to me that you couldn't just fork/rewrite boot-floppies, build a custom set of CDs with the subset of the archive that is useful to your project, and write a non-sucky system configuration tool. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Progress just means bad things happen faster." | | -- Terry Pratchett, _Witches Abroad_ | \------------- Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Because. ------------/
