On 08/08/2014 12:00 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 08, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > >> I recently spent some time installing community computer labs in rural >> Brazil. Internet bandwidth was nearly nonexistant[1], so if you were > I am sure that we could have a great competition for finding potential > users with even crappier connectivity and even more obsolete computers, > and somebody would improve the record every time! > >> If the xfce iso didn't exist, people in these situtations would >> not be able to install a usable Debian system. > I see a solution that would satisfy everybody: whoever is interested in > supporting this kind of situations could build CD images appropriate for > them, and everybody else who does not live in the worst connected parts > of the third world can continue using a modern desktop as usual. >
I'd suggest something similar, but in the opposite way you did, so I'd be more confident on calling Debian "the universal operating system". -- tiago
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