6 Oct
2015
6 Oct
'15
5:29 a.m.
On Tuesday 06 October 2015 00.20:08 Timothy Pearson wrote:
I'm not going to continue this conversation
further. From what you are
saying you are going to stop promoting TDE, and that's your decision,
however I really want you to understand that actions have consequences.
Just like the actions of thousands of people clamoring for better cloud
services, Netflix/Amazon/etc. movie streaming, etc. have damaged the
availability of symmetric Internet connections, if people stop supporting
TDE or even promoting it then it will die and disappear. Better warm up
those KDE SC 5 or Unity configurations, because that's all we'll have
left...
Tim
OK, so let's face the truth:
How many TDE users are we? On this list I don't see much more than a dozen.
Who is ready to contribute and how much?
I don't know where big projects (KDE, Gnome) get their money from, but
obviously we can't have a small, non-profit project supported by Tim alone,
use it for free and them rant because it's not available like a big
distribution.
How much do we need to keep TDE alive, and how much can we get / are we ready
to give? In the Linux world most are used to get everything for free, are we
different?
From Tim's tone I feel that if we dont address this issue _now_ we'll no more
being installing a lot of TDEs, be it fast or slowly.
Another idea to ease install problems: is it not possible to create some sort
of install DVD? Most of us I guess are mostly installing the same
distribution over and over, so installing TDE from a DVD or USB stick would
save downloading it over and over, which costs money and generate
frustration.
Other projects also only publish final releases. If there are no contributors,
we probably must accept the idea that we can't have nightly builds and other
bleeding edge releases unless some good soul offers it to us.
BUt what is sure is that if we don't _do_ something and just sit there ranting
we want better services for no more (of our) money we'll have to keep our
current installs running as they are or change our desktops...
I'd love to be able to continue installing TDE...
Thierry