hi greg, >> believe me -- and I realize that may have been tongue-in-cheek -- >> enormous success for a particular Linux distro can only be a good >> thing for all the other Linux distros. >> > The other thing from a development point-of-view is that there is > probably a need/value of some of us who may have one of these massive > hard drives on a computer to have more than one linux partition so we > can side-by-side see where there are issues with one distro or another.
with one 1TB harddrive (which costs about 100 US$) you should be able to install something like 200 different distributions. (not sure if there is a BIOS supporting this and wether you want to scroll down the list) (well, virtualization may be a better way to go) i'm willing to pay for this disk for each scribus team member who makes the request, if this means a better support for non marginal distributions (but you may have guessed it: i don't believe that hard disks are the limiting factor here...) > I would add that this doesn't have to be devs doing this, but really > anyone who wants to help the project. i'm also willing to offer the disk to some elected tester which are not in the team. > The only other thing to add is that maybe we can avoid arguing about > how popular or how many computers run this or that distro. I think > what Craig was referring to is the long-standing and really unsolvable > issue of knowing how much Linux is out there and what kind it is. This > serves proprietary OS companies, but is for the rest of us rather > uninformative. like most or all statistic, the one of mine was also made up. the message was: there are many ubuntu users out there, who are using scribus and they are a significative part of the scribus users which don't use windows. i suggest that we don't try to discuss the significance of statitistics (we probably all agree on it), but try to solve the problems the ubuntu users have with scribus. i may try to contact some people, if the scribus team welcomes it. have a nice afternoon a.l.e
