On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:32 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:46:14 +0100 > Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But "use this crappy distro just because it comes with this particular > > software by default" is not a good argument either. We don't want > > people to experience that lack of support. > > > > Yes, indeed. It would contradict the goal of the project, wouldn't it? > > I just wonder: What makes you think, I -- and all members of the > marketing list who thought the idea could be interesting -- would > not bother about the quality of support and ask a "crappy" distro for > cooperation? > > Well, nevermind. You probably have your reasons. I'm a little bit > disappointed, though.
Any special purpose distribution will have a small user base and will therefore be crappy and will lack support. I think we should be encouraging people to be using mainstream quality distributions. I suppose you could adapt another distro, if you just add applications without changing anything else. > > > > I think a website that advertised the software that you care about, > > with help on installing it on whatever distro they have, would be far > > more useful an effective. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. :-) Unfortunatly, a website is already under > construction. > > In fact, you and me already talked about it in a short 'footnotes > comments' discussion. You said something like "Don't make us enter all > the data, again" and I replied: "Developers won't need to bother about > it." > > It is also already linked in the wiki. [1] I'm sorry. I really have no idea what you are talking about. > However, the university outreach project has slightly other goals > that you can't reach by using a website -- at least, from my point of > view. But if you like me to stop working on the idea, just say so. Of course not. > Claus > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/MarketingTeam_2fLiveCD -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
