Re: SEUL: Re: Trial or no trial

[Randy Heineke <heineke@vanilla.r.umn.edu>]

Your right, Thomas
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Thomas Molesworth wrote:

> It depends on how you define trial install - if it's a plain vanilla version
> of SEUL that requires work to cut down on the full install, then I think
> that it would be a bad idea, because it would draw attention away from the
> development of the main SEUL package.
> 
> If you mean an easy-install, easy-remove basic system to get SEUL up and
> working _while it is being developed_, then a trial system is necessary -
> trial in this case would mean full system 'cos the full system would only
> have the basics at that point.

That is what I was thinking.
 
> OTOH, A "trial" install as in a "demo" of Linux should not be released until
> the rest of the distrib is in perfect working order (as proved by a lot of
> testing).

I don't see this as important now, maybe not even later.

> 
> The SEUL distrib should only contain the most basic packages (no httpd, etc)
> until the installation process is working as well as possible - this would
> be the full system, and it would have to be easy to uninstall as well as
> install.

> Thomas Molesworth            (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)


Cheers,

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Simple End User Linux Mailing list
To be removed from this mailing list send a message to majordomo@txcc.net
with the line
unsubscribe seul-project
in the body of the letter.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------