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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE OS
From:       Harald Sitter <sitter.harald () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-08-22 11:14:05
Message-ID: 200808221314.09129.sitter.harald () gmail ! com
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On Friday 22 August 2008 12:35:15 Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> An event CD makes a lot of sense. KDE branding, demo data, selection of
> representative apps for use at booths etc.
>
> > To demo it at events, and, for the same reason, it should be also pointed
> > to be the 'official KDE distribution' at reviewers, so that we don't look
> > bad because of some distributor choices or packaging errors.
>
> Here it becomes tricky. Many reviewers as well as most of our users will
> get KDE as part of their distribution. We really don't want to get into the
> business of distributions, that would be a big can of worms and we would
> have to tackle so many issues we don't have resources for that we wouldn't
> get good results.

Very true. The problem is also, as soon as we distribute the system outside 
the project (i.e. for purposes other than a KDE guy/gal showing off what KDE 
does and how it does it), we become distributor and have to care about updates 
for the underlying components of KDE, security updates for all the packages, 
provide support of some sort (it's not like all hardware works out-of-the-
box)...

As Cornelius said, we don't have the resources for that.

> But we of course should work together with distributions and make it easy
> for them to put a great KDE on their products. That means providing hooks
> for customization, providing artwork which is ready to use, establishing
> communication channels for discussing problems and requirements, etc. We
> are actually not doing a bad job with that, but there also still is room
> for improvement.

+1


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