From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from tnt15b-142.focal-chi.corecomm.net ([216.214.210.142] helo=linserver.megsinet.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15Bivi-0008PG-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:13:55 -0400 Received: (from romualt@localhost) by linserver.megsinet.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f5HKMLY00358 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:21 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:22:00 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: FAQ gally2: Distro Prejudice Message-ID: <20010617152200.C313@linserver.megsinet.net> References: <15148.47670.533435.340008@akp.selfhost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from janina@afb.net on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:57:14AM -0400 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If that's going to be changed, then we should have examples such as if you use slackware, type this. if you use redhat, do this etc. If we're just going to give incompatible command after command, then people will get very confused. Greg On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > I expect we don't want to betray a bias toward one linux distribution over > any other. In fact, I think the current faq does exactly that without > meaning to. All the examples are slackware based. > > The solution, imho, is to carefully insure that examples are given in such > a way that the main distros are represented somewhere in the faq. I don't > mean many examples, one for each distro, where examples are. I just mean > that on the whole, there should be parity. Else, there's a subtle > implication of favor. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup