On Tuesday 28 November 2000 16:34, Annie Pinder wrote: > Jimmy O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Being not long out of my teens, myself, I can say that the things > > teens want are the same as non-technical adults - office-type > > software (for school projects etc), e-mail and games/emulators. > > Plus, most teens I know would avoid things aimed at "teens". > > I am a teenager, and I don't enjoy using "office type applications".
I am 18 years old and I need and enjoy spreadsheets and chart drawing applications. I was a player before I used GNU/Linux and I hope there will be some good games for GNU/Linux in the future. But since the most high-quality games are proprietary this is not a Debian-issue. Debian could have some task-packages for office- and some science-applications (e.g. plotter) (and educational apps when they are more complete). These task-packages should go into the "normal" distribution. When I was 12-16 I hated it to be treaten as a child. So if I had the choice between a teen-distribution an adult-distribution I would have chosen the adult-distribution because I would have feared that there were limitations to the teens-distribution. I chose GNU/Linux because I knew it is used for high-end computers, too. I wanted a "real" and strong OS (I was using Windows before). We can provide a website for describing applications to help the users (teens and adults) to choose between them and we can create task-packages but we should not build a teen-distribution. Now I am officially an adult and I think there are not too much differences in the needs of teens and adults (regarding software). Max Moritz Sievers
