On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, pmarin<pacogeek_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I think the "suck less" term is not original from our comunity.
> The same happens with "the Unix philosophy" of XFCE (http://www.xfce.org/):
>
> "Xfce 4.6 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity
> and re-usability..."
Xfce devs completely fail at understanding what the Unix philosophy
was all about.
uriel
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Julien Pecqueur
> (JPEC)<jpec_AT_julienpecqueur.com> wrote:
>> I'm very surprised to heard about suckless philosophy on a definetly not suckless project mailing list : étoilé, a osx-like free project.
>>
>> -------- Message original --------
>> Objet : Re: [Etoile-discuss] New website blurb
>> De : Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow_AT_gmail.com>
>> À : Discussion list for Étoilé desktop environment <etoile-discuss_AT_gna.org>
>> Cc :
>>
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I put a new "introductory paragraph" on http://etoileos.com/. I think
>>> it will be more effective at getting visitors
>>> interested..comments/feedback?
>>
>> I think it's pretty good. However, depending on the target audience
>> (average Joe, geeks?) I'm not so sure about the revision history part.
>> The average Joe probably wouldn't really know what it was or why it's
>> useful. Maybe "version tracking" (or whatever MS Word uses) would be a
>> more self-explanatory term.
>>
>>> Does anyone object to using the phrase "Making computers suck less?"
>>
>> It's not very professional, but I would say it appeals to geeks. It
>> reminds me a lot of http://www.suckless.org/
>>
>> I think the "read more" site needs some expansion on the various
>> concepts. At the moment it has a very brief overview of the goals, and
>> mostly technical stuff (frameworks).
>>
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