[NTLUG:Discuss] DISORGANIZED FOMAT

[Bob Netherton]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 13:07 -0600, John Swink wrote:
>  Whoever is putting these packages together
> needs to realize that Debian is well over 50% of the desktop market,
> including Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire, and others.

What census data are you using to reach that conclusion ?   It certainly
isn't 50% of the desktop market, if it were 5% I'd be shocked.

Aren't there package converters out there that work ?   What's the one
I'm thinking of ..... alien ????  Sorry, not a .deb guy.  Becoming an
ips guy, but that's a thread for another discussion list.

But your quest is much more subtle than just packaging formats - the
way the distros integrate the various open source projects can make
this interesting at times.

> But I am really writing to ask why you don't have a blog site where
> comments are listed once, and only once.  It is a little tiresome
> reading these long e-mails where the same discussion is copied several
> times.

You mean a thread based web forum that interfaces with the discussion
list ?   Sort of depends on how you want to interact with the community.
I've done some on other lists and found that the forums don't socialize
as well.  I dig the conversational approach of an email list.

That said, I'm right there with you when folks don't trim their
replies :-)   At the volumes posted here, that doesn't seem to be
a huge issue.


Bob