Re: New website layout / design contest?

> It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many users > is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. Our priorities are our users and free software. So, sorry, but I *do* care about how much users use Debian. And I have the somewhat strange feeling that I'm not alone amon

Re: New website layout / design contest?

Paul Belanger wrote: [ Debian web site is not really good ] On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:23, George Danchev wrote: > Seems like this website issue has already been addressed: > (note: url is intentionally wrapped) > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/ > 2006-0

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:11, Anthony Towns wrote: >    2) Debian rolls out the red carpet for "Foo Linux" > >          2.a) http://henning.makholm.net/debian/debianbased.png I like the carpet metaphor. (... and I never liked the bottle) Less whitespace in the logo:

Re: New website layout / design contest?

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Paul Belanger wrote: > I'm sure not all debian developers feel that way, if that is the case, why > release a quality product at all? I'm not a developer but I certainly care Because some of us care for quality no matter how many users are there. Just remember that the attitu

Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

Scripsit "James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - Allow an automated comparison of the two .debs. This would take >some work to set up, but I would hope to detect a binary that >doesn't correspond to the claimed sources. Also incorrect version >of a compiler and different librar

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

Scripsit Anthony Towns > 1.b) http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/tmp/distilled4.png > (created by Dana Sibera, aka Danamania, SVG available) For the record, I like this - especially the upper variant - better than my own proposal. The ability to miniaturize well and still be r

Re: New website layout / design contest?

On 9/4/06, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Belanger wrote:> After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user.It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many usersis Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. Matěj--23 Marion St. #3, Cambridge, MA 0214

Re: New website layout / design contest?

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:09, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Paul Belanger wrote: > > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > > > > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many > > users

Re: New website layout / design contest?

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote: > Paul Belanger wrote: > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many > users is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. If you think of the mone

Re: Branding for Debian derivatives

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:59:58PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > (a) a nice logo standing for "based on Debian", that derivatives > can use So a little over a month later [0], here's all the ideas we have so far: 1) "Foo Linux" is Debian -- distilled. We've taken the best

Re: New website layout / design contest?

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:16:59PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user. > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many users > is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing. Still, the remainder of the mail had a poin