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Dear All,
First and foremost, my sincere thanks to the visitors that understood my comments and perhaps excused my overreaction, if any.

If you found my tone to be too aggressive I apologize. ( And..sorry for the endless collection of typos)

To furter clarify:

“Review
By Owen Anderson… When the founder came here to make inflammatory comments at the reviewer, however, I must say that I have now firmly decided I am never going to install or recommend CollegeLinux. That is easily the least appropriate and the most unprofessional behavior I have ever seen. I don't care if you're a volunteer: if you want people to use your product, they're going to expect professionalism. And you just blew it.”

That is unfortunate. Sorry if my comments gave you such an impression about me or CL but .. first impressions
are often misleading.

Perhaps CL is not a professional distribution, or we might not fit within the icon of “professional developers”. Despite that we did worked hard and waited six months to release something close to innovation. I am refererring to the apt-get like system slapt-get(never seen as default in slack based distribution) and the “server robot”.

True, CL 2.5 is not yet a perfect distribution.

We received a tremendous amount of support from our users. Many volunteers are screening our forums and helping out everyone. All this free of charge. CollegeLinux owns its little progress to the users.

There would be no CL without the tremendous support we received from the CL users community.


“I was going to download and try College Linux but reading the comments from David Costa (project lead of CL) I now refuse to waste my time with it and will not recommend it to anyone. If you can't take the heat in a review and improve your distro but instead choose to post on here backlashing at the reviewer then I want to have nothing to do with you or your distrobution”

Sorry to hear that my comments gave you the wrong impression about CL. You can certainly hate my style or me as a person, but this has little to do with the distribution.

Is like saying that you don’t use Windows because you don’t like Microsoft CEO.

I always valued constructive criticism, regardless of my personal sentiment toward the reviewer.

This was not the case. I haven’t found anything constructive. I don’t think that package selection or the theme are valuable arguments. This is, once again, my personal and possibly biased opinion.

A CL user posted a very objective review, pointing out some relevant bugs (now fixed and soon to be available via the package manager) you can see it at http://linux.college.ch/phorum/read.php?f=20&i=80&t=80

Other clarifications:

-OpenOffice was excluded last minute for a usuability issue. Most likely our fault.
With the slapt-get interface (which was not even deem of a short note within the review) our users will be able to add OpenOffice with a click. Koffice is included. Not many are paying attention to the Koffice progress, but it’s certainly impressive.

-You didn’t include package “X/Y”
Right, that’s why we do welcome your feedback. If someone wants a package X or Y we would be more then glad to compile and add it to the repository. Once there, it will be available for download and installation in the same way used by Debian.




All the best and thanks again for your support,
David Costa