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Re: Road map--or some such.
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Wolfgang Jaehrling |
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Re: Road map--or some such. |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:43:09 +0200 |
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:53:02PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Perhaps it would be better to provide packages. Everyone has his
> favorite editor, window manager, etc. Except the practical
> disadvantage for many people I am worried about custom repositories
> filled with non-free crap. If there is already a repository of
> software people will use that.
That is a good point, but at least for the next few years, the GNU
system will suck so much that I suspect only real Free Software
fanatics^Wenthusiasts will be interested in it anyway...
> IMHO it should be easy for people to access Free Software, even if it
> is not GNU software. So something like apt or the ports system might
> work really nice for that.
Hard to argue against that. I like the idea of making it easy to
access Free Software, but consider: The more different programs are
widely used, the harder it is for users to help each other. If you
are using Sawfish and I am using Window Maker, you can hardly help me
if I have a problem. I think it is more important to make it easy for
people to help each other and cooperate than to provide many choices
by default. GNU is not only about freedom; it is just as much about
community.
Additionally having many packages makes it hard to find programs for a
certain purpose. On this computer I am using Debian woody. Suppose I
don't remember the name of the "top" program, but I want to find and
install it. I might try the command:
$ apt-cache search process
I get a list of 528 packages as the result. I'm certainly not going
to look through the list until I find what I was looking for. (This
was the very first example that came to my mind.) That is of course
only a rather minor point compared to the aspect mentioned above.
I don't think an operating system should come on more than one CD.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
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- Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/19
- Re: Road map--or some such., Wolfgang Jaehrling, 2004/04/19
- Re: Road map--or some such., Marco Gerards, 2004/04/20
- Re: Road map--or some such.,
Wolfgang Jaehrling <=
- Re: Road map--or some such., Marco Gerards, 2004/04/20
- Re: Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/21
- Re: Road map--or some such., Marco Gerards, 2004/04/21
- Re: Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/22
- Re: Road map--or some such., Marco Gerards, 2004/04/22
- Re: Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/21
- Re: Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/21
Re: Road map--or some such., Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/04/21