Hi all,
Am 11.08.2014 18:12, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting Olav Vitters (2014-08-11 11:21:14)
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 11:10:50AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quite a few places in the World have poor and/or expensive internet
access. Larger default desktop will hurt the most in developing
countries: non-techies gets discourages to use Debian at all, or when
using it may apply security fixes less often.
How poor is poor?
Poor enough that they bother visitors coming from different places in
the World asking them to please consider bring install data "by
sneakernet" (e.g. on CDs but could just as well be floppies or uSD
storage embedded in iPhones - physical media type not important).
Is it realy a question about poor and whealty?
Why not reference to:
https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html
https://www.debian.org/social_contract
So - what is to do? Is it really necessary to decide only
to have one solution?
I'm not very familiar to the technical details, but is it possible - for
example -
1) to have a plain CD / DVD Image with a tall DE?
2) and enable the user in a second step to upgrade easy to whatever
he/she wants? KDE/GNOME/Mint...?
3) Provide a additional DVD Installation Image with native GNOME?
I think it is not necessary to devide the world in two parts - poor and
wealthy.
I think we all have different needs in different situations - and these
is not allways
congruent with poor or wealthy.
I think there is a broad need for a tall DE all over the world - just
think about plain servers.
On the other side there is also a need for a mature DE like GNOME.
So - why not to try to fullfill these needs of the users like pointed
out in the debian contract:
4. Our priorities are our users and free software
And I think there were _all_ users ment. Right?
Only the five cent from a plain user... :-)
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