On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here (possibly the enormity of the battle on > 'our' hands... and I mean that seriously) but it seems to me that by > choosing against something like KDE (which to all intents and purposes > *is* free software to the end user) we are spiting ourselves. When
Maybe _I'm_ missing something, but... I don't see the problem here. KDE already has a maintainer. There are already kde deb packages (out-of-date) and the new beta KDE deb package will be available soon for both libc5 and libc6. The only hindrance is that it will be in non-free and therefore not on official Debian CD's. Just grab it from non-free from any Debian mirror. It makes sense that the default or preferred Debian desktop/wm must be one that is on the offical CD. That shouldn't make another any harder to install and use unless the (automatic) menu support is lacking (as far as I know). There are many useful/needed packages in non-free already: glimpse, gs-aladdin, jdk, majordomo, pico, pine, qt, quake, rman, tkman, unzip, xanim, xv, zip, to name a few. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
