[CS-FSLUG] A new distro model for the real-world desktop

[Stephen J. McCracken]

>     Principle: if installing software is made harder and not easier,
> even if it nets a more secure, stable system, you won't get users to
> adopt it. Linux is already harder to install software on than Mac OS X
> or Windows, though at the net gain of easy updates. If you can keep the
> easy updates *and* make it easier to install, you go a long way towards
> a real world desktop.

How is "apt-get install openoffice" harder than others?  Or using
synaptic to check a box and have it install with all dependencies?
(Just wondering at your thought process.)

>> hardware age.  We could label them perhaps "Infra", "Chroma", and
>> "Ultra", in order to avoid denigration of those who prefer the
>> oldest.  Right now I would put GUI 'links' in "Infra", and Firefox 3
>> in "Chroma" and "Ultra".
> 
>     Very interesting idea. I suppose relatively analogous to the Debian
> arrangement?

That's what I thought, too (basically taking the Debian approach, here).

sjm