Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the?Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:14:47AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > And what is wrong with just plain "Applications"? > I think the whole "app > store" thing is blown out of proportion by the marketing teams of a few > companies, we do not need to join he hype on this. I'm personally against hy

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:06:33AM +0200, Jérôme wrote: > Small Apple "Apps" provide 1 contents and not 1 task, this is redundant > programming ( a browser for parents, a browser for children, a browser > for cat...). It's like ou must use vim for editing scripts emacs for > editing configs and ged

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 14 April 2011 23.37:16 Steffen Möller wrote: > On 04/14/2011 11:28 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > >> I think a case could be made for Debian's apt system being the > >> original "app store" > > > > Yes. That's what I want

Re: debian trademark

2011-04-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
and any requests for using "Debian" should ATM be directed to current DPL: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianProjectLeader On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > thomas leclerc writes: > > according to this page http://www.debian.org/trademark i'd like to > > send a request for a project & domain

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Steffen Möller wrote: > >And because there was a mail about not accepting the term app store > >because repository is such a good name: I have no idea whether > [...] > How about "Free App Store" ? The double meaning of "Free" So far I think this was be the best in terms of

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > I agree with Andreas. After saying “repository” three times I have > muscle pain in my mouth. Yes. It's a fine term for precision among fellow geeks, but it's a poor name for getting recognition by newcomers. > So our packages are not an application store because we do

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:28:44PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > And because there was a mail about not accepting the term app store > because repository is such a good name: I have no idea whether > repository is such a good name for native speakers. For non native > speakers it is not. H

Re: debian trademark

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
thomas leclerc writes: > according to this page http://www.debian.org/trademark i'd like to > send a request for a project & domain name That page describes the Debian project's trademark policy. What is your request? -- \“But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have |

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Jérôme
Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 09:54 -0700, Noah Meyerhans a écrit : > It's funny that you'd say that, because traditionally the Unix > approach has been to use many small, task-specific "apps", not one big > monolithic system. Yes but no ( ̄~ ̄;)ウーン・・・ Unix app do 1 task or 1 job useful for any applica

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Steffen Möller
On 04/14/2011 11:28 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: I think a case could be made for Debian's apt system being the original "app store" Yes. That's what I wanted to say in my previous mail! And because there was a mail about not accept

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:54:40AM -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > I think a case could be made for Debian's apt system being the original > "app store" Yes. That's what I wanted to say in my previous mail! And because there was a mail about not accepting the term app store because repository is

debian trademark

2011-04-14 Thread thomas leclerc
Hi according to this page http://www.debian.org/trademark i'd like to send a request for a project & domain name but i don't find (or understand) where i can ask for this can someone help me thanks thomas.

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Jérôme wrote: > Why using 100 apps for doing something that 1 browser can doing ? "App > store" is lineal heir to french "3615 Minitel". It's funny that you'd say that, because traditionally the Unix approach has been to use many small, task-specific "apps

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Jérôme
Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 09:12 +0200, Klistvud a écrit : > The term "app store" is extremely well established and quite > univocally defines a store where apps are *sold*. Using the > term, or any subvariant of the term, is IMHO just bound to rise > eyebrows and confuse newbies. > > Non-newbies

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 05:47:18PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > My proposal (which is orthogonal) is linking to applications, just to show > that Debian is not just an operating system as defined on our title page > ("set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.") It se

io.debian.net (kfreebsd-i386 porterbox) downtime later today

2011-04-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > io.debian.net, the kfreebsd-i386 porterbox, is back online after we > exchanged the dead power supply unit. > > Nevertheless the root filesystem is currently dirty due to two bad > sectors on one of the harddisks. > > Expect a maintenance downtime of io.debian.net in th

Re: Better visibility of "what can you do with Debian" on the Debian main page

2011-04-14 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 04. 2011 14:56:31 je Yaroslav Halchenko napisal(a): On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > > My proposal (which is orthogonal) is linking to applications, just to show > > that Debian is not just an operating system as defined on our title page > > ("set of basic programs and ut