On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, pmarin<pacog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I think the "suck less" term is not original from our comunity. > The same happens with "the Unix philosophy" of XFCE (http://www.xfce.org/): > > "Xfce 4.6 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity > and re-usability..."
Xfce devs completely fail at understanding what the Unix philosophy was all about. uriel > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Julien Pecqueur > (JPEC)<j...@julienpecqueur.com> wrote: >> I'm very surprised to heard about suckless philosophy on a definetly not >> suckless project mailing list : étoilé, a osx-like free project. >> >> -------- Message original -------- >> Objet : Re: [Etoile-discuss] New website blurb >> De : Sebastian Nowicki <seb...@gmail.com> >> À : Discussion list for Étoilé desktop environment <etoile-disc...@gna.org> >> Cc : >> >> >> On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I put a new "introductory paragraph" on http://etoileos.com/. I think >>> it will be more effective at getting visitors >>> interested..comments/feedback? >> >> I think it's pretty good. However, depending on the target audience >> (average Joe, geeks?) I'm not so sure about the revision history part. >> The average Joe probably wouldn't really know what it was or why it's >> useful. Maybe "version tracking" (or whatever MS Word uses) would be a >> more self-explanatory term. >> >>> Does anyone object to using the phrase "Making computers suck less?" >> >> It's not very professional, but I would say it appeals to geeks. It >> reminds me a lot of http://www.suckless.org/ >> >> I think the "read more" site needs some expansion on the various >> concepts. At the moment it has a very brief overview of the goals, and >> mostly technical stuff (frameworks). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Etoile-discuss mailing list >> etoile-disc...@gna.org >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss >> > >
