Hi Murray, > The GNOME LiveCDs are for marketing, and testing, not for installing or > otherwise messing with your system.
do you really mean that installing GNOME is "messing with someones system"? Since quite some time I thought that this is the coolest thing that can happen to a computer... Could you explain to me what "marketing" means? I always thought its purpose is to get stuff out to *users*, i.e. getting people to _use_ something and not only to _watch_ at it but I seem to be absolutly mistaken about that :( Holy crap! :-) Geez: Bill, Steve, Scott and SADLBF (SFADLB,SBDALF?) would still be sitting in their respective garages and probably repairing bicycles nowadays had they been that chicken hearted ;-) LiveCDs are very important and they must be localized and installable. Okay, a last time how I got here: I'm living in France being german and my local linux user group features a french localized knoppix which is called KLA. I'm quite sure you never heard about it before but it is a huge success in France and Canada and I read everyday about new users on the lug mailing list. It has even been distributed with the french red-hat magazine and is now being distributed by the french government in the region of Auvergne at 50.000 copies to all schools. KLA has four selling points: it is french, it is a liveCD, it is installable and it has french support. And I searched for something similar with GNOME but it didn't exist. Once again: simply make the next official GNOME liveCD defaulting to chinese. You think I'm nuts? You are right! and right now you do understand that five billion people on earth think that *you* are nuts too forcing them into english (and english help pages and an english keyboard layout for the command line switch to any other language) Thanks for reading ;-) I'm open for any flame, I will read them all and then properly file them and then at new years eve I'll delete them alltogether 8-) Marcus P.S: I have been answering here to Murrays posting but it is more a reply to the list - I highly respect Murray. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list