Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Apr 2003 18:28 UTC
There is a Linux distro for any possible need and CollegeLinux is geared towards students and schools! Today, we interview Prof. David Costa of the Robert Kennedy College in Delémont, Switzerland regarding their initiative behind CollegeLinux.
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"The other annoyance was that the packagers don't seem to understand the point of the .desktop files used by KDE and GNOME. I remember uninstalling some app (IIRC, xmms) and finding that an entry for XMMS was still on the K menu! Turns out that the .desktop file for XMMS, instead of being packaged with XMMS, was packaged in some package called kdelinks, which contained a whole bunch of .desktop files -- totally negating the point of using .desktop files in the first place. When I pointed this out, it appeared that the resident CollegeLinux guru thought that syncing the menu entries with the apps to which they pointed was an RPM thing, and that Slackware-style .tgz files weren't packages. Huh?"
Hi there,
well let's the the whole story. First of all the discussion was related to CollegeLinux 1.0.
You started posting one message a day (or more) on the tone "why this is not as I want it? ...you should include this because etc. etc. add_my_wish here" of course in certain cases you did provided a valuable feedback, thank you.
Eventually you posted your very last innuendo saying that in fact you are pretty happy and used with redhat (and there is nothing wrong with that) and your interest in collegelinux was marginal.
Then I mentioned rpm and alike for a comparison purpose only.
Our Installer works perfectly with lilo. Perhaps is not explained as it should (and we will fix this) but every user who pay attention to the instructions and keep an eye on our forum and reviews can install collegelinux easily.
"These guys aren't idiots, but they are just learning the Linux landscape"
May be. We don't claim to be God's gift to mankind. We are just a group of people doing the very best to contribute to the diffusion of linux among students and why not, non students.
Just one final note: trust me, creating from slackware a distribution for desktop users isn't as easy as it seems.
Don't take it personal, but if you post a wanna-be-flame on a public forum at least report the facts correctly. Some people might get the impression that we are just a group of exalted people, and we are not.
David Costa
P.S. glad to learn in the linux landscape everywhere. You are very lucky if you know everything on linux without learning something new every day.