On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:01:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:09, Tom Allison wrote:
I have been unsubscribed from 'debian-user' for a bit so I may have missed a thread on this one.
But there has been a lot of discussion on other distro-lists about
the potential implications concerning the recent announcements of RedHat/Fedora and SuSE/Novell. From the other lists, there's a lot
of discussion about alternatives and with that Debian is mentioned A
LOT.
Does any of this have any real potential influence on Debian?
How about an influx of "users" who depend on GUI for administration, and who aren't sick of RPM?
I intend to agree here, especially with all the work being done at present on the installation aspect of Debian. This is going to make Debian much more 'accessible' to the general population than it has been in the past. I have been thinking even of proposing the formation of another one or two mailing lists (I considered 'networking' to have enough traffic to be classified as a separate topic), as Debian-User, as the general mailing list is possibly going to become deluged. Though we probably have some time before that potential occurs. Regards,
David.
So this is a "good thing". Makes sense.
Now the big fear is a problem where everyone goes "retarded" with massive restrictions of functionality as exampled with SuSE in another post.
But since we aren't run by a Stock Oriented Corporation we can all expect better things! :)
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