Here are some ideas about debian that have been rattling around in my head.
- Since GnuStep (Free NextStep, OpenStep, what-have-you) appears to be the GNU take on operating environments shouldn't that be the take of Debian as well? I think that this is a good idea since: OpenStep looks really cool, NeXT and the NeXT environment were and still are ahead of their time, Mr. Perens works for Pixar, etc. et all... - Should we, via some sort of converter or an extension of dpkg's intelligence, develop a method of making the Red Hat distributions useful to us, aka. installable? - Develop an Xwindows version of dselect. - Enhance dselect and the installation process in general to enable even the more foolish of computer users to successfully install a version of Debian for certain predefined and limited roles (aka. web server, file server, mail server) in something similiar to the manner of NetWare or MacOS. Installation of Debian as a dedicated AppleTalk server with little or no user interaction would be trivial (or easy maybe). More later... -- Ean Schuessler - Director New Products/New Technologies Novare International, Inc. - The unstoppable fist of digital action http://www.novare.net
