Hi Cornel,

Following through with your intent, would you survey librarians to ask them
which distro version of Linux to use for your library OS? What version has
the best repositories for librarians? How would you determine this? What if
half the community uses Gentoo and the other half Fedora or Mint? I'm
partial to Gnome3, what if others prefer KDE or XFCE, would this be in an
interest survey?

To be honest, I have had negative experiences with distros managed by a
small team. Perhaps others have had better luck, but I tend to prefer
distros which have a large user base and active forums.

I do wish you the best in this endeavour if you see a need. However there
are criteria which must be met before I consider an alternative to my
current distro, making a switch unlikely. I presume these sentiments may be
shared by other linux librarians.

All the best,
Craig Boman
On Oct 19, 2014 4:56 PM, "Joe Hourcle" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Francis Kayiwa wrote:
>
> [trimmed]
>
> >  I'm willing to bet it would be much less effort to fix this Ubuntu
> problem dealing with the Ubuntu devs (I've found them reasonable to work
> with) than trying to heard the cats around "yet another debian fork"
>
>
> Another alternative would be to pick an existing OS, and make sure that
> all of the requisite packages are in their package manager.
>
> -Joe
>
> ps.  'OS for librarians' was never defined as being (1) for servers at
> libraries, (2) for librarian workstations, or (3) for public-use machines.
> Things that make a good client machine doesn't always make for a good
> server.  And what makes a good personally managed desktop doesn't
> necessarily make it a good desktop when you're managing dozens or
> hundreds.  (take MacOSX ... replacing bits to make it 'easier' for users,
> but harder to manage remotely in bulk)
>