On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:09:55PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > It is not per se about blends. I see blends as the best and easy > solution to jump on to make Debian more appealing to the generic > audience, be it a science or any other user-base with given interests. > With the talk though I want to express the opinion that Debian is > already ready to become a distribution of choice for many user-bases > among mortals, and that is a particularly good fit for scientific users. > Question is: why then it hasn't become popular among them (yet)? and I > speculate that it is simply due to the lack of visibility of > Debian among those users and this issue could be easily addressed. > Moreover I wanted to reiterate some issues, currently not fully > addressed in Debian, which are somewhat specific to scientific > user-base.
I have read your abstract exactly like this and I really like it. I hope I will have good enough bandwidth to follow the DebConf video stream. ;-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100430070928.gd28...@an3as.eu