Hi 2gether, I read your posts with great interest and I wonder if there might be a chance to overthink the strategy the Debian People setup once (maybe not at this moment but in the far future).
You know, I'm also quite a newbie with Debian, and YES the strategy is quite confusing. And as I read in several posts, even advanced users have different opinions about what stable/unstable/testing means. Also I would like to bring back a sentence someone said here (can't find the post now there are too many already *lol*). If you are into a subject so deep, you fail to think like the "normal" or "newbie" user. That's a good point here! So why not think about using a strategy that almost every company uses (although Debian isn't one), e.g. Redhat, SuSe, even Microdoft........... For me as a user and systems administrator something like this would be much much better. Why not do it this way? enterprise - this is for servers only - not much GUI/ focused on servers/ networking,routing/ multiple cpus/driver support and so on workstation - this is for home users and workplaces - not much server stuff here/ focused on multimedia/ x-server/ openoffice and so on sandbox - (I like that word, Monique :-) this can stay the same and is meant for people who would like to help the Debian project with further releases, simply a sandbox to play with to find and report bugs..... (maybe there should be two then, something like E-sandbox, for the enterprise stuff, and W-sandbox for the workstation part) THIS would really be a great change for the better in my eyes. -Everybody who needs a server will choose enterprise -Everybody who needs a desktop system will choose workstation -Everybody who would like to be part of the party would choose sandbox And yes, the enterprise version should really differ from the workstation one......! Of course this is a lot of work, but I think it would encourage more people to use Debian, and I guess that's one of the goals here isn't it? Just some thoughts I had reading all your posts. Greets from Germany, Simmel P.S.: And while I'm on it, pleeeeez enhance the installation routine, something like a graphical interface. This takes the fear off most users. Take a look at SuSe and Redaht and you'll know what I mean. I know that there are also a lot of small things which aren't good, like the package selection, those are far better in Debian. But the "blue screen" :-P is really annoying and confusing. My first installtion were more like 3 1/2 installations, if you catch my drift. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
