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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!crynwr!nelson
- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Paid Linux coordinator?
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <713587893snx@crynwr.com>
- References: <1992Aug10.172855.29777@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 02:51:33 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Aug10.172855.29777@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com writes:
-
- In article <713112590snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- | Is there any interest in paying someone to be a Linux coordinator?
-
- Arrrgh! Linux is a fine learning tool as it is, why try to make it
- something it's not? At some point maybe someone like Cygnus will grab a
- copy, stabilize it, and offer it for a few bucks, but for now if you
- slow it down the excitement will burn out and you will wind up with a
- lot less to coordinate!
-
- Okay, call the person the "Linux secretary", then. Someone to pick
- up the slack that a volunteer doesn't feel like filling. Here are
- possible some lines for the coordinator's job description taken from
- a previous posting of yours:
-
- I would like to see people put some effort into packaging the
- software, so I could, for instance, grab a 'ps' package and just compile
- it and run. I'm willing to compile for every new kernel, I'm less
- willing to grab headers from some other package, diddle a bunch of
- s_links which seem to change between versions, etc.
-
- True, although a directory of what files are where and what's really
- in them would be a big help. Just a list of what kernels work with what
- packages would be great. With a comment like "must ps -U to run" or
- "works, but must recompile with new kernel includes," or something like
- that.
-
- One of the things the coordinator could do is sell Linux floppy sets.
- That would help fund the position...
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
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