RE: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Fuentes, Adolfo
Well, then the problem I think is that people don't get to know what we all already know: That Debian is perhaps the best distro (in general terms). As Paul Wise commented, we need more promotion and more people creating screenshots. At least this would be the easiest and cheapest way to start w

RE: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-21 Thread Fuentes, Adolfo
Well, whille trying to convince people to use Debian instead of Ubuntu, Fedora or OpenSuse, I always encounter one of these two questions: - If the user is inexperienced, they argue that Debian is "complicated to use". Perhaps this is due to a marketing campaign that other distros have claiming

RE: Removing the manpage requirement for GUI programs?

2010-02-27 Thread Fuentes, Adolfo
I think it is a good idea to have a centralized system where one can find information about a particular program. Otherwise we take the risk of having a sparse information system. If help2man helps to create the man page from the program help, which is the burden then? --- Department of Chemist

RE: FORTRAN implementation in Lenny

2010-02-22 Thread Fuentes, Adolfo
From: kamaraju kusumanchi [raju.mailingli...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 February 2010 22:27 To: Fuentes, Adolfo Cc: debian-u...@lists.debian.org; debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-resea...@lists.debian.org; debian-scie...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: FORTRAN implementation in Lenny >]$ f95 -O

FORTRAN implementation in Lenny

2010-02-21 Thread Fuentes, Adolfo
Hello. I'm trying to compile the file from [The Computer Language Benchmarks Game] in a Toshiba Satellite A200-1C0 with the specifications shown below. The problem I've got is that when I compile the file with GNU FORTRAN 95 4.3.2-1-1 and G95 FORTRAN 0.91,