Pinoys!
Let's help make a better Linux-Mandrake!
The man just said it below.
( I personally prefer mandrake over redhat... )
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Subject: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION (fwd)
Date: 05/26/2000 6:02 AM
From: Denis HAVLIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Expert list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I hope you do not get this twice on expert list)
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Hi, folks!
What follows is probably a single most important letter I
ever posted on
these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
[ANNOUNCEMENT]
We (Mandrakesoft) are starting internal discussions about
future of
our distributions NOW. We want you to take part in the
process of
improving our next distro.
- NOW is a time to ask us whatever you want: tell us what
you like, tell
us what you hate, tell us what you dream of!
- NOW is a time for you to influence the future company
decisions - start
thinking, and if you come up with a briliant idea, post it
here.
Starting NOW, I am going to stop sleeping, eating, or doing
any other job
which would interfere with currently most important task:
Making sure we
make the best decisions based on whatever input we can get.
[RULES]
* Basically everything you can think of is open for
discussion, except
question of including non-free software in the core of our
distro, which
is absolute NO-NO.
* Listen to what other people have to say. Try keeping the
signal/noise
ratio as high as possible.
* One topic per e-mail and informative subject line help us
a lot. ("125
Great ideas!!!" is a very bad subject line.)
* Please, try to avoid any kind of flaming on the list for
the next 10
days.
* Finaly, If you have time and skills to pick up ideas from
long
discussion threads and write a good summary, please do it,
it will help us
a lot.
[TOPICS]
Topics we are particularly interested in at this moment
include:
1) ergonomics: What should our user interfaces look like in
the
future, what should we improve in our desktop configuration,
which things
need polishing...
2) install: Which features of our current installation
program (DrakX) do you like, which features are you
missing, what is not
clear enough? The same question goes for post-install
configuration
tools.
3) packages: which packages to add, what to remove from
the distro,
which subset of packages is really nessesary for a
minimal install,
and which packages are "just add-ons"?
4) tools: which new tools (packages) should we develop
ourselves, or
improve in case we are already developing them?
Many great
programs already exist out there, so we really badly need
to know
which important linux tools you still miss, in order to
concentrate on them in the future.
5) system policy: We want to make our system "logical" by
following the
Linux Standards, and being consistent in the way
"things" (services, settings) are implemented. Tell us
where
we need to improve.
6) security policy: Closely related to point "6". You know
that we care a
lot about security, don't you? Well, the problem is
choosing right
security settings for various situations.
(If you feel that we have forgotten an important topic, just
start a
discusion on it, the list should not be taken too strictly)
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I am going to spend a lot of time in reading "newbie" and
"expert" mailing
lists during next two weeks. Guillaume will do the same on
the
"cooker" list, and other members of the company may pop-up
and take
part in discussion too, for topics they may be particularly
interested in
(and if they get time to do it, our schedule is bursting).
At the end of the discussion cycle (in two weeks), I will
try to write a
resume of what has been decided and share it with you.
yours
Denis Havlik
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Dr. Denis Havlik
<http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik>
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