On 11-05-08 at 07:50pm, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sure, users are free to whatever with their FreedomBoxes - it is > > Free Software. > > > > But the FreedomBox is a *subset* of Debian with additional > > constraints especially on user-friendliness. I do not consider > > "aptitude install whatever your heart desire" as especially > > user-friendly. > > > > I envision that we decide on some pieces in Debian, work with the > > maintainers of those pieces to make them possible to not only be > > installed in the "aptitude install, tinker with configfiles until > > happy" fashion that we are used to, but also supports hooking up > > with a dead-simple design which we invent - or (hopefully) discover > > that others have invented and convince someome to package and > > maintain in Debian. > > > > So I expect the "dead-simple" interface of FreedomBox to only be > > able to add/remove - or enable/disable if there are so few that it > > makes sense to inlude them all as part of the "core" - those > > services which are sane for the device - which means both > > user-friendly and considered secure. > > An excellent analysis, and the same sort of vision I have. > > I would add that there may be a few pieces not already in Debian, > or not yet in the stable branch, that we turn out to need. That > means somewhat more work.
Indeed. But let us work with *Debian* on that, instead of taking on a burden of building (somewhat) a derived distribution on top of Debian. > Also, the design we come up with must deal with policies and > config files as much as possible. Asking a user to type a > command to install something is not all that unreasonable. > Asking him or her to edit most config files is. Indeed. I am _very_ curious what designs will emerge when someone really truly engage into that crucial area of this project. Hint hint. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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